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Managing Assessment Updates with the ORIS Plugin for Autodesk Civil 3D
Keeping your ORIS assessment in sync as your Civil 3D model evolves.
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Design changes are inevitable. The ORIS Civil 3D Plugin detects when your model has changed and lets you push those changes directly into your ORIS assessment, without re-exporting or re-uploading the model. This keeps your carbon calculations aligned with the latest design at every stage of the project. |
How the Plugin Detects Changes?
Managing Multiple Models or Large Schemes
Versioning and Design Traceability
How the Plugin Detects Changes?
The plugin monitors the objects or quantity takeoff data you connected when the project was created. It tracks each element using its unique identifier in Civil 3D, and watches for changes to properties, volumes, or the addition and removal of objects.
The plugin uses a visual status indicator to show the current state of the connection:
- 🟢 Green: the data in ORIS is up to date with the current state of the model.
- 🟠 Orange: a change has been detected in the model. The assessment has not yet been updated.
Note on corridor solids
When corridor solids are regenerated in Civil 3D, their object IDs may change. To ensure the plugin can correctly track updates, generate your corridor solids with the option to keep the link between the corridor and the solids enabled. Without this link, the plugin cannot detect that a regenerated solid is the same element as the previous one.
Updating Your Assessment
When the plugin shows an orange status, you have two options to bring your ORIS assessment up to date.
MANUAL UPDATE
Click the synchronise button in the plugin at any point to push the latest quantities to ORIS. You can choose to update the existing project or create a new one to preserve the previous state as a separate scenario for comparison.
AUTO-UPDATE
Enable auto-update so that every time a change is detected in the model, the plugin automatically pushes the updated data to ORIS. The status indicator moves from orange to green without any manual action required. Then you need to click on “New Version”
Tip
Use manual update when you want to control which design states are recorded in ORIS as distinct scenarios. Use auto-update when you are iterating quickly and simply want ORIS to always reflect the latest model state.
Removed Elements
If an element is removed from the Civil 3D drawing, the plugin detects its absence during the next update. When quantities are pushed to ORIS, the corresponding line item is removed from the bill of quantities automatically. No manual cleanup is required in ORIS.
Managing Multiple Models or Large Schemes
On large schemes it is common to split a corridor into multiple Civil 3D models, for example one per 5 or 10 kilometre section. Each model can have its own plugin connection and its own ORIS project. You can then compare scenarios across sections or manage them independently within ORIS.
Versioning and Design Traceability
The current version of the plugin maintains a live connection to the active state of your Civil 3D drawing. To record a specific design state for traceability, create a new ORIS project from that state before making further changes. This preserves the scenario as a separate assessment that can be compared with later iterations.