Civil 3D 2011 Service Pack 2 is Now Out

Good morning everyone. I hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend. Well, many of you may have already heard that service pack 2 for 2011 came out late last week. I have posted a link for the download. I will try to do another post late tonight. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

C3D 2011 Service Pack 2

More June Autodesk Knowledge Base

Good morning everyone. Well the last 2 weeks has been busy for me, so I haven’t had much time to post. I will say that I just recently been promoted to CAD Manager at the firm I work at, so that’s awesome . Anyways here are a few more knowledge base issues posted by Autodesk. Enjoy

 

Enabling verbose logging for installation issues

Understanding a Civil 3D and Infrastructure Suite mixed license environment

3rd-party application, AutoTurn, is crashing

Autodesk product crashes at startup due to missing DirectX Runtime DLLs

New Pipe Feature in 2012

Hi everyone. So last week we had our first lunch-n-learn over 2012 Storm Sewer & Sewer Analysis (SSA) software hosted by DCCADD and presented by Matt Castelli. The presentation was great and hopefully the testing that we will be doing will produce great results. Anyways, after the presentation, Matt informed me about one great new 2012 feature that has not been mention in any blogs or video that I know of. It seems that Autodesk has added a new pipe rule where the pipe ends at the structure wall. As we all know, in older versions of C3D, the pipe would connect to the center of structure, which in the real world, this is not how pipes are built. For storm, you typically don’t want to come into wall no greater than a 45 degree angle (depending on how much room you have from the top,side and bottom of structure walls) Anyways, the new pipe rule allows you to end the pipe at the inner or outer wall of the structure. If you turn of your structure part masking within the structure part properties, you will see how the pipe ends at the wall in plan and profile view. The only flaw I saw was if you move the structure, the new pipe rule does not remain. You have to reply the rule again. I would personally only apply the end towards the end of you design. Once you apply the rules, sometimes you have to drag the end points of the pipe to the side of the wall and it will connect. I am glad that Autodesk finally listened it still needs a little work. Anyways I hope everyone enjoys playing with the new feature. Have a great week and thanks for stopping by.

 

More Autodesk Knowledge Base

Good morning everyone. Hopefully everyone had a great weekend. Sorry I haven’t posted in a while, I have been busy. I should have a new post for yall tonight. Anyways here are more known issues solved by Autodesk, enjoy.

Blue Screen on Startup when using Nvidia Graphics Card Version 197.85

2012: Preparing for installation of Autodesk products and suites

2012: Configuring and installing Autodesk products and suites

2012: Activation and Post-Installation Tasks for Autodesk products and suites

How to understand and manage your Autodesk licenses (video)

More Knowledge Base Issues

Good morning everyone. Wow what an exciting night it was with my Dallas Mavs winning and moving on the championship finals. In addition, the hockey game (Boston vs Tampa Bay) was awesome too. Anyways here are more knowledge base issues posted by Autodesk.

2012: AutoCAD framework issues when running at high DPI scaling

Not all Previous Version licenses are available after activating an Autodesk Design Suite

AutoCAD products experience a crash with a Windows skinning utility installed

How to remove all Autodesk products from a Windows system

How to transfer stand-alone licenses in Autodesk products (video)

How to find the product key for your Autodesk product

Enabling 3GB switch on Windows Vista™, Windows 7 or Windows XP

May’s Knowledge Base

Good morning everyone. Wow what a crazy weekend. Hope everyone had a great weekend. Anyways here are more known issues posted by Autodesk.

 

Serial Number Error with 2011 AutoCAD Inventor Suite

How to remove all Autodesk products from a Windows system

How to download a previous release of Autodesk software

2012: Cascading Sequences for Autodesk Products

How to request an upgrade to one of Autodesk’s Design & Creation Suites

Tables From Survey Blocks

Civil 3D is probably one of few software's that you use for years and never fully learn or use all it’s unique features and commands. I spend countless hours every week training myself and I always learn new things. Like everyone says “ there is always room to grow.” Anyways today I want to teach you how to used the EATTEXT command. Have you ever received a drawing from a surveyor, client, or developer an all the survey shots are blocks points? Lets say you need to create table for all the tree shots? That’s where the EATTEXT command comes in. EATTEXT command basically extract and compiles information and organizes them into a table. This feature can definitely come in handy for landscape architects. See below for step by step procedures to create a table from cogo points.

1. In order to make this simple, it’s best to isolate the blocks you want to create a table from. As you can see below, I isolated my survey block points.

2. Now type the EATTEXT command. The data extraction dialog wizard will appear. Here, it will ask you if you want to create a new data extraction file or using an existing file. I will select Create a New Data Extraction then hit Next .

3. The next dialog will ask you if you want to extract objects from the drawing/sheet set or from the current drawing. I’m going to select Select Objects in the Current Drawing option. Then click on the  small selection box to the right. Create a window selection box by holding down your left mouse button, to select the blocks you want to use. Then hit the right mouse button when you are done. The number of selected objects will appear on your command line. Click the Next button.

4. The next dialog box displays all the object that you selected and it’s relative information. At this point all I want to see is block objects with attributes. Check the Display blocks with attributes only option. For my drawing, I want to check the objects having a display name of SRVPNO# (for survey point). Click the Next button.

5. The next dialog box displays all the attribute properties that are attached to the block. Because I chose to only use blocks with attributes, I did not have to use the category filter on the right side of the dialog box. If you look below you can see that I have 3 properties: DESC2, ELEV2 and PT#. This is all I want to see on my table. Hit Next.

6. The next dialog box display a quick preview of what your table will look at. At this point I don’t want to see the Count column and Name column of my blocks so at the bottom left, I will uncheck the Show Count Column and Show Name Column. The table will automatically update and change. The Sort Columns Options allows your to sort the column descending or ascending. You can also simply click the small triangle next to the PT# column name to change it to ascending or descending. Click the Next button.

7. The next dialog box allows us to create an output data file and a table to insert into our drawing. I’m going to check both for now. Click the small browse button to provide the save location of your output file. The file can be saved as a .csv, .xls, .mdb, or txt file formats. I prefer to us the .csv file format but that’s just me. Hit Next.

8. This dialog box allows you to edit and change the way the table will display on your drawing. The table editor is pretty self explanatory. Hit Next once you are done.

9. Finally click Finish to complete the wizard and to insert your table.

This is how my table ending up looking. The table is like any other C3D table so you can still make changes to how it appears. Well I hope this will help some of you during your design process. Feel free to make comments or suggest. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.