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6. Right-click the VBA category, and select New Tool.

7. Expand the VBA category to view the new tool, and then click the name to edit it in the preview

area. Change its name to Pipe Sample.

8. Change the Description to Sample VBA.

9. Working down through the properties in the preview area, select VBA in the drop-down menu

in the Execute Type ﬁeld.

10. Click in the Execute File ﬁeld, and then click the More button.

11. Browse to C:\Program Files\Autocad Civil 3D 2010\Sample\Civil 3D API\COM\Vba\Pipe\,

and select the ﬁle PipeSample.dvb.

12. Click Open.

13. Click in the Macro Name text ﬁeld, and type PipeSample as shown here.

14. Click the green check box at upper right to dismiss the editor.

15. You will be asked ‘‘Would you like to apply those changes now?’’ Select Yes.

You’ve now added that sample VBA macro to your Toolbox. By adding commonly used macros and

custom reports to your Toolbox, you can keep them handy without modifying the rest of your Civil

3D interface or programming buttons. It’s just one more way to create an interface and toolset for the

way you work.

Panorama

The Panorama window is Civil 3D’s feedback and tabular editing mechanism. Designed to be

a common interface for a number of different Civil 3D–related tasks, you can use it to provide

information about the creation of proﬁle views, to edit pipe or structure information, or to run

basic volume analysis between two surfaces. For an example of Panorama in action, change to the

View tab, and then select Palettes  Event Viewer. You’ll explore and use Panorama more during

this book’s discussion of speciﬁc objects and tasks.