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Cadvance Down Load Area

  

Welcome to my Down Load area for Cadvance. Here you will find Components, Symbols or Blocks that have been with me through Generic CADD, then Cadvance and have also made it into AutoCAD.

 

Those offered are all my own work. I do have a vast number of commercial symbols that I have converted from DWG to SYM. Email me is you are looking for something specific.

 

I hope you find these symbols and macros useful, come back on a regular basis because I have more to add here.

 

 


 

 FREE User Macros for Cadvance FREE Version 6.5

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 090  For descriptions of what the macros do see 2002 Versions below

 

 ALIGNTXT

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 AREA

 Download Zip File

 AREACALC

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 AUTOFILL

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 BIGTRIM

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 BOXTRIM

 Download Zip File

 CLR_WGT

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 CLRTOGLE

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 COLMNPUT

 Coming Soon

 COORDPT

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 GETANGL

 Download Zip File

 GETANG2

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 INFILE

 Download Zip File

 LAYCOLWT

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 MIDPT

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 MIDPTI

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 MIDPTV

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 Panleft

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 Panright

 Download Zip File

 Panup

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 Pandown

 Download Zip File

 Plotarea

 Download Zip File

 XSECTION

 

 Electrical Symbols

 

Cadvance V6.5 Symbol Library

Electric Symbols for electric power BS 3939:

1985 Architectural Installation Plans

Identification of Specific Conductors

(104 symbols based on this code and actual symbols used by Electrical Engineers )

 

A dxf/dwg File Translation Strategy View or download the Symbol reference document

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Support Documents

 A dxf/dwg File Translation Strategy

 

A dxf/dwg File Translation Strategy

 

A Document produced by Janice Harmon of BayCAD after getting a lot of phone calls a few years ago, involving problems opening DXF and DWG files, so they thought it would be a good time to outline the procedure they go through at BayCAD Services.

 

 A dxf/dwg File Translation Strategy

 

CADVANCE Version 6.0 For Windows

Quick Reference Guide in Adobe PDF Fomat

This 6 Page guide has been scanned at 300 dpi thus this file is 5.13 MBytes Large.

 

 

 

 FREE User Macros for Cadvance 2002

 

 

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Here is a comprehensive list of Macros that are supplied with Cadvance Version 2002. Basically I've taken the header / macro information from each program and listed them in alphabetical order.

 

One of the best ways of getting into writing macros is to try and work out how existing macros works. Below are macros that were originally posted to the Independant Cadvance Forum run by Kevin Largent.

 

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090

This CADVANCE macro changes the snap angle between 0 and 90

Copyright (c) 1994, MSKTD and Associates, Inc.

1715 Magnavox Way

Fort Wayne, IN  46804

All rights reserved

 

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ALIGNTXT

Author Unknown

The user selects two points (perhaps on a line), and the required angle of the text is automatically calculated and entered into the Text dialogue box, which is then launched

 

 

 

AREA

Calculates area defined by line boundary and places area text

Copyright (c) 1994 C:\CAD\NEWS All rights reserved.

 

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AREACALC

Macro to query the area of a lineset and place the results as a text string with user defined size.

Author - Mathew Lawrence, CAlibre

Copyright (C) 1996. All rights reserved.

 

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AUTOFILL

AUTOFILL.CBL

Calls DRAW/ TEXTURE to fill objects with

Simplified user defined, paper scale hatching.

by Rick Dahlstrom

MSKTD & Associates

March 1996

 

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BIGTRIM

Trims and deletes everything out side of a rectangle selected by the user

by Peter Williams Construction & Property Consultancy

London Borough of Sutton

 

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BOXTRIM

Trima and deletes everything between two selected rectangles

by Peter Williams Construction & Property Consultancy

London Borough of Sutton

 

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CLR_WGT

CLRTOGLE.CBL

Changes current color with keystrokes.

by Rick Dahlstrom & Kenneth Etter

MSKTD & Associates

April 1995

revised 26 April 1995 to include weight - renamed to CLR-WGT.CBL

 

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CLRTOGLE

Changes current color with keystrokes.

by Rick Dahlstrom & Kenneth Etter

MSKTD & Associates

April 1995

 

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COLMNPUT

This macro will place a table of information from a commer delimited file into cadvance. The user has control over the number of columns 1 - 5 the text size, line spacing factor and automatic outlining.

by Peter Williams

 

 

 

COMBINE

The purpose of this macro is to take multiple single lines that form a closed boundary and COMBINE them into a one multi segment line for area fills.

Mark G Browning - I don't seem to have the cbl for this one only the cbx

Did Mark ever upload the source code ??? Does anyone know ?

 

 Coming Soon

Recreate the symbol

 

COORDPT

Places a node and the Eastings and Northings of a point selected on a digital map by the user.

by Peter Williams Construction & Property Consultancy

London Borough of Sutton

 

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GETANG2

Macro to retrieve the line angle and inverse angle of a selected line segment.

Written by Mathew Lawrence, CAlibre Support Services Ltd

Last modified Jan 97 by Alan James Wooldridge

To display results in Degrees, Minutes and Seconds.

 

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GETANGL

Macro to retrieve the line angle and inverse angle of a selected line segment.

Written by Mathew Lawrence, CAlibre Support Services Ltd

Last modified Dec 1996

 

 Coming Soon

 

INFILE

Inports a text file with control on the Font, Justification, and options before placing.

Date written  10/10/1995

By David McGrath (100252,1516)

 

screen dump

 

 Coming Soon

 

LAYCOLWT

Changes current LAYER \ COLOUR & WEIGHT based upon the table within the macro.

by Alan James Wooldridge  Construction & Property Consultancy

May 1995

Based upon CLR-WGT.CBL

By Rick Dahistrom & Kenneth Etter

MSKTD & Associates

April 1995

 

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MIDPT

Calculates and selects the mid point between two locations selected by the user. Snap left as curently set

Author Unknown

 

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MIDPTI

 

Calculates and selects the mid point between two locations selected by the user. Snap to Intersection is automatically turned on when you run this macro.

 

Modified MIDPT, automatically selects snap to Intersection.

Modified by A.J.Wooldridge

 

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MIDPTV

Calculates and selects the mid point between two locations selected by the user. Snap to Vertex is automatically turned on when you run this macro.

 

Modified MIDPT, automatically selects snap to Vertex.

Modified by A.J.Wooldridge

 

 Panleft-2002.zip

Pan Left BMP

 

Panleft

Pans the screen view left one screen length

Written by Rick Dahlstrom

MSKTD & Associates, Inc.

June 22, 1994                               

 

 Panright-2002.zip

Pan Right BMP

 

Panright

Pans the screen view right one screen length

Written by Rick Dahlstrom

MSKTD & Associates, Inc.

June 22, 1994

 

 Panup-2002.zip

Pan Up BMP

 

Panup

Pans the screen view up one screen length

Written by Rick Dahlstrom

MSKTD & Associates, Inc.

June 22, 1994

 

 Pandown-2002.zip

 

Pandown

Pans the screen view down one screen length

Written by Rick Dahlstrom

MSKTD & Associates, Inc.

June 22, 1994

 

Plotarea-2002.zip

 

Plotarea

Macro to calculate the area selected by the user as a rectangle then place the results on the drawing within the rectangle.

Written by Peter Williams and Alan James Wooldridge

Construction & Property Consultancy

London Borough of Sutton

Date Written 12/11/1996

Last Update  19/02/2004 - 2002 Version Created

 

 Coming Soon

 

Civil Engineering Highways Cross Section Macro Metric Edition

for Cadvance Version 2002

 

This macro is ideal for Civil Engineers in Local Government, Private Practice, Consulting Engineers, Developers and Quarrying Organisations. The macro produces a Highway Cross Section from data input via a dialogue box.

 

The users also has the option to save and load data files

 

 

 

 

DISCLAIMER: (AKA the small print)

 

Cadalot and other contributors disclaims any and all liability for any damages arising out of the use or operation, or inability to use any software or file available here. Furthermore, by downloading any file you agree to hold CADALOT and contributors to this web site harmless from such claims.

 

CADALOT and the macro contributors makes no warranty, either expressed or implied, as to the fitness of these files for any particular purpose. All materials are to be considered "as-is" and use of any files should be considered as AT YOUR OWN RISK

Last Update Septembert 2004

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