ADT Pacfica Car Parking Tool Update

Got a nice surprise today when Rich forwarded an update to his ADT Pacifica Car Parking Tool.
To create a run of parking you pick the type, arrangement and "measure or divide length" options in the dialog and then pick the kerb length in the drawing.
Based on carpark size & access rules it:
~ Creates car parks sized to code specifications (default is NZ Ministry of Transport 90 percential car sizes used by most local authorities).
~ Places a sequential number in each park.
~ Calculates & indicates aisle widths based on the code specifications.

It can also add a text “Parking Count Summary” but I use an ADT Schedule to count "live" as car parks are created and removed.  These tools; auto draw, aisle calc, & count deliver a huge productivity gain when creating and editing large parking layouts. There are also other tools to place parking symbols (traffic arrows etc) and a “one click convert to 3d face” so you can easily render the parks in Viz Render/Viz.

The update adds user overrides for depth & width so any custom park can be created. This is great for areas with their own local codes or to add to existing non-std parking layouts.  Its a nice example of AutoCAD and ADT tools combining to deliver a great solution. Thanks to Rich for fullfilling a "wish" submitted only last week!

The parking tool is part of ADT Pacifica (Architectural).

For more on ADT Pacifica look at Product>Autodesk Applications on the Salesoft CAD Solutions Home Page