Building our first Dynamo for Civil 3D 2025 script

Now that we have a general understanding of Dynamo for Civil 3D, how to access it, and an idea of what types of nodes we have available to us, let’s start building our first Dynamo for Civil 3D script, or workflow. As you may have already begun to realize, Dynamo for Civil 3D has a tremendous amount of power and provides a multitude of options in terms of what we can automate. Differentiating between what we want to do versus what we should do can occasionally be a bit of a task itself. At the beginning of anyone’s Dynamo for Civil 3D journey, it’s recommended to keep a running list of any task or workflow that is often very labor-intensive and time-consuming.

Taking that into consideration, one of the first labor-intensive and time-consuming tasks that comes to mind is cleaning up a survey file to conform to the display standards of a client or of your own organization. Using Dynamo for Civil 3D, we can build...