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Civil 3D 2010 Update 2 released

September 25, 2009, 5:07 pm by DaveBos

Autodesk have now released Update 2 for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010.

The update can be found here.

Update 2 contains all previous updates for Civil 3D 2010.

Issues Resolved for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Update 2

This update includes the resolution of over 40 issues. This section of the readme documents the resolved issues that previously caused loss of data, unexpected failures of AutoCAD Civil 3D, or reflect a change in functionality. You can view the issues resolved in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Update 1 in the Update 1 Readme.

General

  • The geolocation information is now cleared properly every time you rebuild a mesh or close a drawing.
  • AutoCAD Civil 3D no longer closes unexpectedly when you open object styles or object properties dialog boxes.
  • You can now save a drawing template that had password-protection properties removed.
  • Performance issues that occurred when you open legacy drawing files have been resolved.
  • Issues with system memory loss that occurred when performing various operations have been resolved.
  • AutoCAD Civil 3D no longer closes unexpectedly, when you perform the Export Lists command in the Event Viewer on systems running on Windows Vista.

Alignments

  • The computational methods for compound Bi-quadratic, Bloss, and Sinusoidal spirals have been corrected. The updated computational methods are applied to compound Bi-quadratic, Bloss, or Sinusoidal spirals when you open existing drawings.
  • In a floating line with spiral, the line length can be edited.
  • Offset alignments are now created as expected on alignments that have spiral-spiral-curve groups.
  • Alignment geometry doesn’t get corrupted and alignment labels are no longer added to the tangent extension lines after you add labels to an alignment.

API

  • An error in LabelStyleCollection::Add() that caused a new label style to have no properties in the Text Component Editor dialog is fixed.
  • Newly created LabelStyleTextComponent::StyleGeneral() objects now have a valid default AnchorPoint value.
  • Pipe structures now appear in the drawing after being added using the COM API, without the need to issue additional commands.
  • Update 2 adds support for additional .NET APIs:
    • APIs that support Alignment Labels
    • APIs that support styles (see the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 .NET API Extension R1 Readme)
    • The following classes, methods and properties have been added to the Civil 3D 2010 .NET API since the API-X R1 release.

      Autodesk:Civil:AnchorPointType Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:AnchorInfo Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:AutoFeatureLabelGroup Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:FeatureLabel Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:ICommonLabel Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:ICommonLabelOptions Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:Label Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:LabelBase Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:LabelGroup:GetAt Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:LabelGroup:ResetAllSubCommonLabelLocations Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:LabelGroup:ResetAllSubCommonLabelProperties Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:LabelGroup:ResetAllSubCommonLabels Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:LabelGroup:StyleId Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:LabelGroup:StyleName Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:LabelGroup:SubEntities Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:LabelGroup:SubEntityCount Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:LabelGroupSubEntity Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:Styles:ColumnStyle:ContentStringFormatted Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:Styles:ColumnStyle:HeaderStringFormatted Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:Styles:LabelStyleBlockComponent:StyleGeneral:AnchorLocation Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:Styles:LabelStyleDirectionArrowComponent:StyleGeneral:AnchorLocation Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:Styles:LabelStyleLineComponent:StyleGeneral:EndAnchorPoint Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:Styles:LabelStyleLineComponent:StyleGeneral:StartAnchorPoint Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:Styles:LabelStyleTextComponent:StyleGeneral:AnchorLocation Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:Styles:SegmentColumnStyle:GetContentStringFormatted Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:Styles:SegmentColumnStyle:SetContentStringFormatted Autodesk:Civil:DatabaseServices:Styles:StructureColumnComponentData:ComponentType Autodesk:Civil:DimensionAnchorOptionType Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:AlignmentCurveLabel Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:AlignmentDesignSpeedLabelGroup Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:AlignmentGeometryPointLabelGroup Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:AlignmentLabelGroup Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:AlignmentMinorStationLabelGroup Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:AlignmentPILabel Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:AlignmentPILabelGroup Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:AlignmentSpiralLabel Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:AlignmentStationEquationLabelGroup Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:AlignmentStationLabelGroup Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:AlignmentSuperelevationLabelGroup Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:AlignmentTangentLabel Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:AlignmentVerticalGeometryPointLabelGroup Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:ProfileView:GraphOverrides Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:StationOffsetLabel Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:Styles:ProfileLabelSetStyle:AddCrestCurve Autodesk:Civil:Land:DatabaseServices:Styles:ProfileLabelSetStyle:AddSagCurve Autodesk:Civil:Land:GeometryPointLabelOption Autodesk:Civil:Land:GeometryPointSelector Autodesk:Civil:LeaderAttachmentBehaviorType Autodesk:Civil:LeaderTailVisibilityType Autodesk:Civil:LeaderVisibilityType Autodesk:Civil:MaskType Autodesk:Civil:PropertyAnchorPoint Autodesk:Civil:PropertyAnchorPoint:Value Autodesk:Civil:Roadway:Settings:SettingsCmdCreateAlignFromCorridor:SettingsCmdCriteriaBasedDesignOptions:UseCriteriaBasedDesignOption

      See the API-X R1 Readme for a list of APIs added since the first release of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010.

    • The AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 SP2 .NET API Reference updated with the new API-X R1 and SP2 APIs is available on the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) web site.
  • IMPORTANT NOTE:
    The ProfileView.Overrides property has been renamed to ProfileView.GraphOverrides. You must recompile applications that use this property against the AeccDbMgd.dll included with Update 2 to run in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Update 2. You do not need to recompile applications that do not use this property.

Corridors

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D no longer closes unexpectedly when you rebuild a corridor model with stations that lie outside the corridor feature line.
  • The operation of importing package files into catalog libraries no longer fails.

Cross Section Views

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D no longer closes unexpectedly when you delete a surface that was referenced in the section views band set properties, and then attempt to set the properties to a different surface.
  • You can now add a material list and specify that material list while you are creating section views. Previously, the material list did not update.

Feature Lines

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D behaves as expected when the Quick Profile command is invoked from within the Elevation Editor vista.

Grading

  • Grading projection lines and daylight lines that are assigned to separate layers now freeze and are not plotted when you specify the corresponding settings in the Layer Properties Manager.

Labels

  • Labels in a dragged state maintain the dragged state when you reload an Xref drawing. Previously, if you reloaded the Xref drawing the labels would revert back to the original state.

LandXML

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D no longer closes unexpectedly when you import a LandXML file (with points that do not have the XYZ data) into a survey database.

Pipes

  • An issue involving random termination of the application when importing pipe networks using the LandXMLIn command has been resolved.
  • In a pipe network, swapping a structure with a structure from one of the new structure part families now works as expected.

Project Management

  • The AutoCAD Civil 3D performance when using Vault for some operations (Login, Checkin, and Select Project to Display) has been improved.
  • AutoCAD Civil 3D no longer crashes when you use the Get Latest Version command in Vault Explorer on a drawing that has been deleted.
  • In Vault Explorer, the context menu for a survey database now has a Check Out menu item.
  • You can now share surface data from a drawing that is added to a project.
  • You no longer lose all the shared surface information when you delete one of the shared drawings from Vault.

Surfaces

  • AutoCAD Civil 3D no longer closes unexpectedly when you drag a surface in the Object Viewer.

Survey

  • Survey LandXML now supports the expected User Defined Property data types. Previously there was only support for a data type String.
  • AutoCAD Civil 3D no longer closes unexpectedly when you edit Setup Equipment Properties in the Setup Editor panorama vista.
  • AutoCAD Civil 3D no longer closes unexpectedly when you export a survey LandXML file with user-defined properties of non-string type.
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Civil 3D 2010 Update 1 released

August 3, 2009, 9:57 am by DaveBos

Autodesk have now released Update 1 for Civil 3D 2010. There were some frustrating bugs in the release version of 2010, and amongst my favourites fixes are:

  • Losing sample lines from a referenced alignment if you RECOVERed the drawing
  • Disappearing or shifting cross-section band labels if you changed the band sets.
  • Intersection objects not working as expected on files with large co-ordinate values (over 7 digits)
  • Viewing multiple points in the Object Viewer no causes a fatal error
  • Profile chainage band labels not displaying properly on a 2009 drawing opened in 2010
  • Surfaces created from contours have strange(!) heights

There are a lot of issues addressed in this update, so don’t forget to view the read-me file first. There was perhaps one notable topic missing from the list of fixes though. In my opinion, Civil 3D 2010 has got some really good new features – but it seems the price we’ve had to pay is we now have a Civil 3D with a voracious appetite for memory. I’ve spent many a happy hour watching the Mem Usage counter click over in Windows Task Manager, with Civil 3D gobbling every last bit up as quickly as it can. I’m sure there must be some memory leaks somewhere for it to be consuming so much, but there is not mention of any memory issues being fixed in this update. Perhaps we’ll get some answers next time…

The update can be downloaded here.

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