Products

(Updated 11/15/2007 )

Cadlantic Custom Utilities are tools for AutoCAD created by necessity.  Each is skillfully written and painstakingly tested to serve the user.  All programs can be called by a unique 2 or 3 letter command, no matter what menu or application is loaded.  They use very little memory and are guaranteed to clean up after themselves, even if *cancelled*.

Cadlantic Custom Utilities can be ordered separately at the list price shown, or... Order any group of custom programs and get a discount...

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AND:   All CADvantage programs are licensed per site, not per computer.
Licenses for small sites are now available at a fraction of site list prices.

LATEST NEWS:

Cadlantic Custom Utilities are totally compatible with AutoCAD R15 (2000/2000i/2002), R16 (2004/2005), and all R15+ versions of Land Development Desktop.
CV_ALIAS lets you set your own aliases without changing your ACAD.PGP file!

NEW NEW NEW !!

GripLayer and GripPrevious (Free)
Grip entire selection sets just by selecting one object, or grip the previous selection set.

VPLock and VPUnlock (Free)
Lock or Unlock viewports by selection (window, crossing, etc.)

PUSH2K and POP2K
PUSH2K exports from 2004/2005 back to 2000/2000i/2002 with Land Desktop AECC object data saved intact in the drawing for restoration by the Cadlantic "POP2K" program.
POP2K restores AECC objects intact in 2000/2000i/2002 exported from 2004/2005 by the Cadlantic "PUSH2K" program.
If you need to share files between 2004/2005 and earlier, this is your solution.

Horiz2Vert
Creates labels in a Land Desktop profile from points picked in plan view relative to a Land Desktop alignment.

Vert2Horiz
Lists and/or labels FG profile elevations in plan relative to a Land Desktop alignment.

QuickProfile
For FG:
  Draws lines in a Land Desktop profile from points selected in plan relative to a Land Desktop alignment.
For EG:
  Writes the station/elevation out to a file to import into existing ground.

VEDIT
Sort of like PEDIT, provides ability to Delete, Insert, or Move the vertices of LWPolyines, Polylines and AECC_CONTOURs. As usual, it includes locked-layer checking and Undo control. Sub-commands, including Undos, are repeatable with a simple return or pick (to the extent they make sense).  It includes an AutoPan feature and the option to turn on ContourStyle grips if they're off.

LDREPAIR
Fixes the apparent disassociation of Leaders and MTEXT in most cases, which are due to the apparent failure of the built-in AutoCAD reactors to handle disparate elevations and distances.

AVGRADE
Reports the average grade and elevation of a 3DPolyline by both simple and distance-weighted methods.  Built for use in dealing with building height computations for the Township of Holmdel, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

3D2PROF - (Land Desktop only)
Sample a 3D polyline directly into the vertical data of any LDT2 alignment. Your choice of start and end points of the polyline, and whether to merge or replace overlapping stations. Only one of its kind that can sample a profile along a variable offset from C/L.  Great for existing gutters!

WLTYPES  - exports LINETYPE definitions from a drawing to any linetype definition file (*.LIN), either existing or new.  Extremely handy for recreating lost definitions or for cloning them from others' drawing files.

ATTMOD - A little utility to provide dialog editing of attributes (Tag, Prompt, Default) within a block definition.

CHGELEV - Changes selected objects to any elevation, including any  subentities such as attributes and heavy vertices.  Also checks for locked layers.  Similar to ZO except for the choice of elevation.

CJOIN can join Land Desktop AECC_CONTOURS with options to fill in gaps, correct elevations, and close the contour.

IMPROVED !!

LABEL_IT -  Cadlantic Bearing, Distance, Arc Labeler (Enhanced Version)
Label_It is the ultimate solution to labeling bearings, distances, arc information (including chord bearing and distance) especially with Autodesk Land Development Desktopt.
It offers astounding bearing and arc labeling features including automatic stacking, associative leaders, intelligent renumberable tags, and your own label style and table style manager (layers, colors, precision, text styles, leader types, etc.)
In one command you can change the label style "on the fly", and label lines, arcs, polyline segments, and entire polylines...
       !!! EVEN IF NESTED IN A BLOCK OR XREF !!!

LSTAT = The BEST layer manager.
Saves and restores NAMED LAYER STATUSES...   (Clayer/Color/Frozen/Locked/Xref/LWeights/PlotStyles/NoPlot) kept as invisible attributes IN THE DRAWING. It can even restore statuses embedded in XRefs, allow you to view any status, report on all statuses, write them out as blocks, and create script files.   Now keeps track of CREATED and MODIFIED dates!

VPLSTAT - Dialog driven program saves and restores NAMED Viewport LAYER STATUSES (Frozen/Thawed) kept as invisible attributes IN THE DRAWING.
They can be restored either selectively or for all Viewports.  It can even restore LSTAT statuses from the current drawing, even if embedded in XRefs!

XOFFSET offsets ARCs, CIRCLEs, ELLIPSEs, LINEs, LWPOLYLINEs,  2D POLYLINEs, RAYs, SPLINEs, and XLINEs...
      !!! EVEN IF NESTED IN A BLOCK OR XREF !!!

It provides the option to offset individual polyline segments  as lines or arcs, or just CLONE nested objects in place!  Unlike the standard OFFSET command, XOFFSET allows you to offset objects on locked layers.
It will even clone XRef layers, colors, linetypes, and linetype scales.

Two last notes:

If the tool you need is not on this list, we can probably make it for you at an affordable price.

Custom modifications can be made at reasonable rates.

3D2PROF

Sample a 3D polyline directly into the vertical data of any LDT2+ alignment. Your choice of start and end points of the polyline, and whether to merge or replace overlapping stations. Only one of its kind that can sample a profile along a variable offset from C/L.  Great for existing gutters!

$150

3DEDIT

Edits and transitions 3D polyline vertex elevations

$75

3DF-3DL

3D Face to 3D Line conversion.  Great for making a Land Desktop DTM from the 3D Road Grid.  Make the resulting 3D lines fault lines for easy building of a new surface.

$48

3DJOIN

Join combinations of lines and polylines (either 2D or 3D) creating one continuous 3D polyline.  Entities are entmoded if within tolerance, or the user is given the option of filling in the gap with a straight segment if over tolerance.  Entities can be retained or deleted.

$99

3DP

Draws 3D polylines at .XY and asks user for either the elevation or grade in percent. The elevation can be entered by just selecting any point in the drawing.

$48 

3D-FLT

Writes out filtered 3D Line and Polyline data to a Land Desktop .FLT file with options for minimum distance between data points and minimum and maximum elevations.

Written primarily to adjust polyline data when extruded in various directions by other sources such as MicroStation.  The .FLT file will identify each polyline written by its AutoCAD handle.

$99

ADDAREAS

Program totals areas of polylines by the usual Cadlantic selection options "All/Layers/Picklayers/<Manually>". Wildcards may be used in layer selection, and user can filter out open polylines by specifying a closure tolerance.

$60

ADDIST

Program allows user to measure a total distance by pointing.

$30

ADDTEXT

Reports sum of any imbedded numeric strings of a selection set of text entities.

$48

ANGLIST

Does what AutoCAD doesn't... allows user to pick two lines, or straight polyline segments, and list and dimension angle EVEN IF > 180°, and even if imbedded in nested blocks.

$99

ATEXT

Text Alignment utility.  This baby will realign selected text objects parallel to most any object that has an angle (lines, polyline segments, text, mtext, attributes) or lets you point to the desired angle, while keeping them in place (changes them to middle justified).

$99

ATTMOD

A little utility to provide dialog editing of attributes (Tag, Prompt, Default) within a block definition.

$75

ATTMOVE

A neat little macro to repeatedly pick attributes and go right to moving them.

$30

AVGRADE

Reports the average grade and elevation of a 3DPolyline by both simple and distance-weighted methods. Built for use in dealing with building height computations for the Township of Holmdel, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

$48

BB

Redefines all entities in a block definition to color BYBLOCK.

$48

BOOKENDS

Dialog driven utility to add/remove characters to beginning and end of multiple text objects, as in brackets "[ ]"

$48

BOREHOLE

Automates drawing bore hole symbols as used in mining maps.

$48

BOX

Draws a rectangular polyline of any width and height, and at any angle.

$30

BOXOUT

Draws the bottom and sides of a pavement box in cross sections.  User enters depth in inches and picks lines of cross section surface to box out.

$75

BULGE

Edit the bulge of one polyline segment at a time.  It's free with the purchase of WEED'EM!

$75

CHGATT

Pick individual attributes and globally modify their Angle/Color/Layer/Position/Style(Case/Height/Width/Oblique/Justification.)

$99

CHGBLOCK

Change selected block insertions to reference a different block definition without affecting attributes.  For example, change that Softdesk POINT to look like a TREE.

$48

CHGELEV

Changes selected objects to any elevation, including any subentities such as attributes and heavy vertices to an absolute value or by a relative amount.

$48

CHGLAYER

Program permits user to select objects and change them to the layer of a target object, or the current layer if none if selected.

$48

CHGPTATT

Globally change the Position, Angle, Layer, Color, or Style of the POINT, ELEV, or DESC attributes of a group of any SOFTDESK point blocks.

$99

CHGPTCOL

Changes the color of every entity in a Softdesk point insertion to a single selected color.  Selection options are All/Layer/Picklayer/<Manually>.

$48

CHGSPACE

Changes (or moves) selected entities from/to Paper Space from/to Model Space (excepting VIEWPORT entities, of course).

$75

CHGSTYLE

Modify the STYLE of selected TEXT entities, including Case, Justification, Height, Width factor, and Obliquing angle.                  IT KEEPS THEM IN THE SAME SPOT!

$99

CHGTEXT

Rudimentary text editor.

$18

CEDIT

Edit the vertex or corner location of a 3DFACE, SOLID, or TRACE in a manner similar to the PEDIT command.

$48

CJOIN

Joins Land Desktop AECC_CONTOURS, Lines, and Polylines with options to fill in gaps, correct elevations, and close the contour.

$75

COPYLAY

Copy selected objects the layer of a target object, or the current layer if none if selected, and allows moving the new items without additional commands.

$48

CROWFEET

Marks proposed corners with "CROWSFEET".  Like Land Desktop's PCOR2, but works better because you can pick any points, not just a line, and point to the desired side.

$48

CSWAP

Swaps all entity and layer colors from one value to another by reading a delimited ASCII file in the format old,new.

$75

DEC2ALT

Adds alternate units (architectural, feet, meters. cm, mm) to decimal numeric text (feet,  meters, cm, mm), completely dialog driven with options for placement, replacement, or modification of text.... even if numeric is only part of text!
             Convert  R=252.36'  to  R=252.36' [76.92m]  or to  R=252'-4 3/8"

$99

DDCHANGE

Program uses dialog boxes for the CHANGE command.  Options:  LAyer, LType, Color, Elevation, Thickness.  It does not waste time checking every entity to see if colors or layers vary (That's good and bad).  But it does work quickly and includes line-types found in ACAD.LIN, even if they're not loaded (That's good).

$75

DDMTEXT

DDMTEXT helps you import ASCII files as either TEXT or MTEXT, both with options for style, height, width, obliquing angle, layer, color, case, justification, tab spacing, and even tracking (that's width between characters in MTEXT).  Oh, and rotation angle too.

$99

DDTEXT

Embellishes the DTEXT command with dialog box choices for Style and Justification.

$48

DDVFILE

View the contents of any text file in a dialog box with horizontal and vertical display controls.

$48

DELLAYER

Deletes all entities on specified layers, by picking objects and/or typing in layer names (wildcards are welcomed).

$24

DETAILS



MKDETAIL

Dialog driven program shows a list of .DWG files in the DETAILS directory and allows the user to:  1. View a slide of the detail (if it exists).  2. View a .TXT file containing detail information (if it exists).  3. Explode upon insertion.  4. Redefine block definition (if present in drawing and not exploding).  5. Insert the detail.  All choices are made within dialog boxes.
Automates the making of details to a valid subdirectory of the DETAILS directory, including a slide file and ASCII info file for viewing as part of the DETAILS routine.

$198

DIG

Digitize areas by pointing and/or tracing with a pointing device, using AutoLISP's (grread) function.  Users can UNDO points in case they have gone astray.  When tracing, digitizer polling can be turned off and on, and the polling interval is us