November’s C3D Knowledge Base

Good morning every one. Sorry I have not posted in a long while. I have been extremely busy with school, work, softball and finding a new place to live. Anyways, Autodesk has receiver large number of CER for Autodesk 2001 products crashing because of Windows Media Player. The best solution for now is to uninstall Media Player, reboot the OS, then re-install Media Player. See link below.

To change to subject I have started another subdivision design. This has been my 4th in the past 2 years. For those who are having problems with design or lot grading questions please feel free to post or email me. As soon as I get settled in my new place I will be doing several post on several intersection design and lot grading short cuts. Hope yall have a great week.

 

Knowledge Base

Autodesk Per-incident Support

September Knowledge Base and Blogger Day

Good morning everyone. Here is the second half of September’s Knowledge base issues posted by Autodesk. In addition, service pack 1 for 2011 has been release as everyone has heard. On top of that, I attended Blogger Day this past Monday. Autodesk went over some of the new features that were added to 2011 in AutoCAD, Map 3D, and Civil 3D. For those of you that have subscription to C3D and have not downloaded and tried the advantage software, you definitely should.

Autodesk Knowledge Base

Civil 3D 2011 Update 1

Disabling Autoload Map3D features

For those of you that don't ever using the Map 3D features and functions  and are looking for ways to save memory, Autodesk just release a post on how to  disable the Map 3D features. See link below.

Disabling Map3D Features

Recovering Drawings

Sorry I haven’t posted in a long while, I have been busy with school. working full time,and still trying to maintain a social life  has left me with little time to do my post.

Anyways, the other day I was working on a large grading drawing for my subdivision I have been working on. After about  2 hrs of working the drawing crashed. I spend the next 1/2 trying to find ways to recover my drawing since I have my automatic save turned off. You may ask why I had my automatic save turned off. Well the grading PG drawings contains many road profiles and many road corridor surface for about 3 miles of road. If I was in the middle of regenerating a surface or corridor and the automatic kicked on at the same time, the drawing would crash. That's something I don't want happening. Anyways, I tried recovering the drawing from the most recent bak file. That didn't work. i tried doing a RECOVERALL and  RECOVER but it kept crashing. I looked to see if I had any temporary backups but I didn't. What I really needed was backup from the previous day or most recent. Well after a few minutes of playing in C3D i ran into this recovery system that Windows creates. I have provide a short video of how I was able to recover a drawing from the most recent windows backup below.

How Windows Creates A Backup: Previous versions are automatically saved as part of a restore point. If system protection is turned on, Windows automatically creates previous versions of files and folders that have been modified since the last restore point was made. Typically, restore points are made once a day. If your disk is partitioned or if you have more than one hard disk on your computer, you need to turn on system protection for the other partitions or disks. Previous versions are also created by Windows Backup when you back up your files.

August Knowledge Base & Support

Here is the August knowledge base issues posted by Autodesk. Majority of the information covers 3d party application problems and solutions. I have posted other important information.

August Knowledge Base

MAPINSERT Hot Fix (C3D 2011)

Raster Design Crashing On Exit (C3D 2011)

32/64 Bit Object Enabler C3D 2011

Graphic Hardware List

C3D 2011 Documentation

O.S. Compatibility for C3D

3 GB Switch

Missing Tool Palettes

C3D 2011 System Requirements

Civil 3D Certification

Save and Qsave Fatal Errors

Undeletable Text

Today I helped a fellow coworker with an issue he was facing and I thought I would share this experience with you.

Well the problem was that there was some notes written with mtext that C3D (2009) would not allow him to delete. C3D would not allow him to click on the text , which acted like the text was not even there. I knew for a fact that I had experience this same issue before in the past. I just couldn't remember what I did to fix it. I have provided below the steps of problem solving I took to solve this issue.

1. I turned on all the layers = no results
2. I turned on the wipeout frames = no results
3. I ran an audit and purge = no results
4. I turned on the attdisp option = no results
5. I turned on all image frames = no results
6. I tried to explode the text = no results
7. I ran the battman command to see if it was some kind of block issue = no results
8. I ran –pu and selected all  = no results
9. I tried the text editor = no results

After trying all these steps, i still could not select the text. I finally decided to tab thru a few of the text commands to see if any of them would ring a bell. TEXTTOFRONT. Once i typed that command I was able to select the text and delete it. After that, i went back to my desk and wrote down the command in my little black book so I would not forget it.  I would like to know how many of you have experienced this same problem?

Anyways be looking for my next post this week and thank you for stopping by.

July’s Knowledge Base Updates.

Hi everyone. Sorry I haven’t posted in a long while. I have been busy with work and sports. I want to thank everyone that have emailed me questions with issues they have been facing. Anyways I have provided a link for the knowledge base issues posted by Autodesk. In addition, the third service pack for C3D 2010 has been released. If i were you, I would  wait at least a few weeks before installing because there always seems to be problems with the install of new service packs. Anyways , thank you for reading my post.

KNOWLEDGE BASE

C3D 2010 SERVICE PACK 3