Bricscad Addon to help speed up the work process yet again!
Another simple script in Python that has speed up the work process for folks who write slow
Blog post by Krzysztof Szafran
There's a lot of people above 30+ that aren't too PC-savy in the Traffic Management field. Especially folks who worked with me. This addon is the perfect solution for them.
Why would You use it? Well imagine a situation. You are filling the current project with blocks (traffic signs) and for each traffic sing You have to perform an action:
> click on the terminal
> type INSERTBLOCK in it
> run the command
> click on the BLOCK_NAME field
> type in the BLOCK's name
> accept
And boom. There You have it. Pretty simple right? Perhaps there's not really a need for a thing like this? You'd be correct without seeing more.
What plays a big role here is that the traffic signs can be 'custom made'. Currently in our database there's around 500 traffic signs. Each with their custom name. Rememebering all of them is impossible.
So what do You do when You can't remember then?
You have to find them in the dataset and copy paste them. And now that takes a lot of scrolls to do. As much as the INSERTBLOCK command would take me, someone who has 93 WPM merely a second, this process however is gonna take 10-15 seconds. Not to mention, if You're working on a big project, good luck with the lags.
And to top it off, bigger projects that affect entire cities can easily have more than 1500 traffic signs. Suddenly the addon that turns it all into a simple 2 clicks process, doesn't sound bad.