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MAPIMPORT or MAPEXPORT doesn’t work in AutoCAD Civil 3D or AutoCAD Map 3D 2014

By C3DIsh On 19 May, 2013 · Add Comment
If you tried to use mapexport or mapimport commands for shape files (.shp) or sptatial data files (.sdf) then you will notice that they do not work or error. This is a known issue with Autodesk and I believe that it will be fixed maybe with a hotfix or the service pack. Until then, Autodesk [...]
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Civil 3D 2014 Productivity Tools issues with installers

By C3DIsh On 15 May, 2013 · Add Comment
Revision – Please check the Update on the issue posted below the original post. Original Post As Neil mentioned on http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Civil-3D/Productivity-Tools-for-Civil-3D-2014-Fail/m-p/3924208/highlight/false#M204000 there are some issues with the new productivity tools in the fact that two of the installers can not install the product because the installer cannot find the target product installed on the machine. Until Autodesk [...]
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Civil 3D 2014 Bug: Surface Analysis is gone

By C3DIsh On 10 May, 2013 · 3 Comments
When you run a surface analysis, whether is elevation, slope, direction and so on, the analysis is supposed to remain on rebuild or synchronization.  With this release of the Civil 3D this is not the case when the analysis is gone on rebuild or, if the surface is data referenced on synchronization. I will try [...]
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Civil 3D 2014 Bug: Layer State Manager Mess

By C3DIsh On 10 May, 2013 · Add Comment
I like my software to be bug free, but in the real world that does not happen. As I don’t like to criticize too much, for now I have to say and that is my own opinion that with every new release of the software some issues are fixed, but on the other side features [...]
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IDS 2014 installation tip: Never run a junk files cleaner on your installation folder

By C3DIsh On 4 May, 2013 · Add Comment
For the many people that use the huge unarchived installation folder to install the Infrastructure Design Suite and love at the same time to keep your drives clean on junk files as err, log .db , please don’t ever consider running the cleaner on hard drive space that includes your installation folder. I will tell [...]
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Library could not be installed/uninstalled

By C3DIsh On 2 May, 2013 · Add Comment
When you install newer version of the Autodesk products that require the base and medium image libraries after you have previously had older versions of the software that you uninstalled, sometimes it happens that you might the the following installation error: Library could not be installed/uninstalled. Once you get this error, the only way for [...]
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Infrastructure Design Suite Premium 2014 available now on subscription

By C3DIsh On 21 April, 2013 · Add Comment
For anyone reading this that does not know about the IDS 2014 or the Infrastructure Design Suite from Autodesk, please see this : http://www.autodesk.com/suites/infrastructure-design-suite/included-software . With the release of 2014 the subscription customers are given the chance to change their C3D subscription to IDS at a very small additional cost per seat, with the advantage [...]
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Move contour labels across surfaces and drawings

By C3DIsh On 25 February, 2013 · Add Comment
If you are in the case of having to move the contour labels from one surface to another or move /copy across drawings the answer is that there is no command to do that, but with a little bit of work it can be done. What does this involve: 1. In the case of moving [...]
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Civil 3D 2013 SP1 Now Available

By C3DIsh On 30 November, 2012 · Add Comment
If you check your AutoCad Civil 3D right top part you will see that there is an update to the software. Yes, Civil 3D 2013 SP1 is available. I could not find it in the list of service packs to be downloaded yet, but I updated it thru the self update function of the software. [...]
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Circle TTR command and not really tangent circles

By C3DIsh On 5 October, 2012 · Add Comment
When you work with linework and you need to add an arc in between two angled segments and for some reason the fillet command does not do it because of the direction of the segments, then you are forced to use the circle and the option for tangent tangent radius, a.k.a. ttr. Working with this [...]
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