Readme for the Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 Service Pack 1
Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 Service Pack 1
In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released
Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 Service Pack 1, which addresses several known issues
with Autodesk Civil 3D 2005.
This Readme contains the latest information regarding the installation
and use of this service pack. It is strongly recommended that you read this
entire document before you apply the service pack to your product. For your
reference, you should save this Readme to your hard drive or print a
copy.
This Readme includes the following topics:
Issues Resolved for Autodesk Civil 3D 2005
Resolved Grading Issues
- The Automatic Surface Creation setting (Grading Group
Properties dialog box) now correctly creates surfaces if selected after the
grading object is created.
- The Automatic Surface Creation setting now creates
a surface when grading outside the footprint to a distance.
- The Create Grading command no longer requires you to
press Enter to display the Station prompt when defining the second station
in a station range.
- New slope pattern styles now list Maximum Length.
- The Endpoint Object Snap no longer requires you to
hover over the end point of a feature line to snap to it.
- Grading feature lines now use the visibility setting
of the feature line style.
- The Grading Group name template dialog box now correctly
allows only the use of Next Counter (parcel options have been removed).
- Inserting transition regions no longer deletes grading
object corners.
- Various memory leaks, such as when grip editing a grading
object or grading from an arc, have been resolved.
- Grading a filleted rectangle to the inside by
relative elevation now grades correctly.
- Projection lines are no longer appearing where projection
lines from deleted grading objects had existed.
- The grading face is now created correctly when you
grade a closed rectangle to the outside first, then to the inside.
- Grading infills are now created correctly at a flat
elevation.
- Copying and pasting grading daylight lines no longer
causes Autodesk Civil 3D to exit unexpectedly.
- Specifying 0 as the starting station of a grading now
correctly starts the grading projection at station 0.
- Creating a grading projection down station after entering
0 as a starting point no longer causes an error.
- Grading to a distance from a daylight line projected
from an arc no longer causes Autodesk Civil 3D to become unresponsive.
- Improvements have been made to multiple grading intersection
cleanup.
- Parcel area is no longer affected when a grading that
uses the parcel boundary as a feature line is edited.
- Improvements have been made to surface creation from
gradings that are created toward the inside of a closed object.
- Vertices are no longer removed when converting existing
entities to feature lines.
- Editing grading objects that share the same planar
coordinates as parcels no longer affects parcel geometry.
- Editing the relative elevation of a grading object
no longer causes Autodesk Civil 3D to exit unexpectedly.
Changes to Grading
- The Elevations From Surface command now includes a prompt for including
or excluding vertices at intermediate grade breaks. Previously the command
always included the intermediate elevations where the feature line crossed
a TIN line.
- For cut/fill gradings, the grading shortcut menu now
contains commands for editing both cut and fill styles.
Resolved Grip Editing Issues
- Grip editing lot lines and grading feature lines no
longer changes the elevation of the vertices.
Resolved Points Issues
- Create Points - Along Line/Curve and other commands
now disallow the selection of profiles.
Resolved Surfaces Issues
- Displaying surface watersheds no longer causes Autodesk
Civil 3D to become unresponsive.
Resolved LandXML Issues
- Alignment spirals are now imported
correctly.
Resolved Parcels Issues
- Using the Undo command after sizing a parcel no longer
removes the parcel face.
- Using the Undo option in the Parcel Layout toolbar
no longer causes Autodesk Civil 3D to exit unexpectedly. Using Undo now turns
off Automatic Mode, which you can reset to On after using the Undo option.
- Grip editing a parcel boundary line no longer has unexpected
effects on other parcels that share the boundary line.
- Breaking apart a PI no longer causes reconfiguration
of the geometry of unassociated parcels.
- Using the parcel sizing commands no longer causes Autodesk
Civil 3D to become unresponsive if a solution using the specified area cannot
be found.
- Grip editing the target of two
or more attached lot lines now correctly updates the attached lines.
- Parcel segments created with the Parcel Layout toolbar
can now be labeled.
- Attempting to label the unsolved geometry of a parcel
no longer causes Autodesk Civil 3D to exit unexpectedly.
Resolved Alignments Issues
- You can now create a circular alignment using the
Fixed Curve (Three Point) option.
- Deleting an alignment label no longer deletes associated
sample line groups.
- Alignment entities attached after a fixed spiral are
no longer excluded from the continuity of the alignment (they are now included
in the alignment object and no longer considered construction geometry).
Resolved Profile Issues
- For alignments that start outside the boundary of a
surface, the station where the alignment hits the surface now matches the
station of the starting point of the profile.
- Existing superimposed profiles can no longer be selected
as a source profile for the Create Superimposed command.
- Profile transparent commands now consistently prompt
for the profile view. Previously they prompted only the first time the command
was used.
Resolved Corridor Issues
- Applying slope patterns between feature lines no longer
causes Autodesk Civil 3D to become unresponsive.
Changes to Subassemblies
- DaylightBasin: Changed the link codes to be Top and Datum for all
links.
- MedianDepressedShoulderExt: Modified the behavior of the Pave1 Extension,
Pave2 Extension, and Base Extension input parameters so that they cannot extend
past the shoulder sideslope.
- ShoulderExtendSubbase: Modified the behavior of the Pave1 Extension,
Pave2 Extension, and Base Extension input parameters so that they cannot extend
past the shoulder sideslope.
- LaneBrokenBack, LaneInsideSuper, LaneOutsideSuper,
LaneTowardCrown: Added a runtime logical assignment that allows the
user to tie the elevation of the outside edge-of-lane to a profile.
Who Should Install
the Service Pack?
This service pack, C3D2005_SP1.exe, is for the English-language locked
and unlocked versions of Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 running on English-language
and non-English-language operating systems.
General Information
Important: You cannot run an automatic uninstall to remove this service
pack. To restore your version of Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 to its pre-service pack
state, uninstall Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 and reinstall it.
Windows Command Line Switches
The Windows command line switches built into this service pack are as follows:
- /e - Extracts the MSP file from the service pack executable.
- /p - Extracts a patch list from the service pack executable.
- /q - Suppresses the completion message after the service pack is applied.
This is useful if you use a script or batch file to apply the service pack
to multiple computers.
Instructions about how to use these command line switches are included in the
procedures that follow.
Applying this Service Pack to a Stand-Alone Installation
- Download the service pack and save it to any folder.
- Insert your Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 CD into your CD drive.
- Navigate to the folder where you saved the service pack.
- Double-click the executable file for the service pack to install it
Applying this Service Pack Through Your Local Network
Using a Patch List
Use this procedure if you want to use Communication Center to apply this
service pack through your local network.
To apply this service pack through Communication Center using local
patch list functionality
- From the Autodesk Product Support website, download <Autodesk Civil
3D 2005 Service Pack 1.exe> and <Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 Service
Pack 1 Readme.htm> to a local server.
NOTE: Make sure that all users who need to apply the
service pack have access to this server.
- On the Start menu (Windows), click Run. Enter the following information,
and then click OK:
<local server name>\<patch name> /p
<patch list location name>\<patch list name>
For example:
c:\C3D2005_SP1.exe /p c:\patchlist.txt
The contents of the patch list file are similar to the following:
*****
ProductCode={5783F2D7-0208-0409-0000-0060B0CE6BBA}
ProductVersionCandidate=7.26.0.100;7.26.0.108;7.26.0.110;7.26.0.118
PatchTitle=Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 Service Pack 1
PatchGUID={58CC83EF-1C4D-4A98-A9D2-6F71507A06CF}
PatchFileLocation=\\\\your_server_name\\your_share_name\\subfolders\\patch_name.exe
or ftp://your_server_name/your_share_name/your_path/patch_name.exe
PatchSize=8238592
PatchDesc=This Service Pack updates Autodesk Civil 3D 2005. The use of
this software is subject to the terms and conditions contained in the
software license agreement that accompanied Autodesk Civil 3D 2005.
PatchDescLocation=\\\\your_server_name\\your_share_name\\subfolders\\readme_name.htm
or ftp://your_server_name/your_share_name/your_path/readme_name.htm
NOTE: If a patch list file already exists in this location,
the new patch list information is added to the end of that file. The original
file is not overwritten.
- Open the patch list file. If there is more than one patch list, the lists
are separated by asterisks (*****).
- Change the fifth line in step 3, PatchFileLocation, to one of the following:
- If you want to make the service pack available from a file server,
enter:
PatchFileLocation=\\\\<your_server_name>\\<your_share_name>\\<subfolders>
\\<patch_name>.exe
- If you want to make the service pack available from an FTP server,
enter:
ftp://<your_server_name>/<your_share_name>/<your_path>
/<patch_name>.exe
- Change the last line in step 3, PatchDescLocation, to one of the following:
- If you want to make the Readme available from a file server, enter:
PatchDescLocation=\\\\<your_server_name>\\<your_share_name>\\<subfolders>
\\<readme_name>.htm
- If you want to make the Readme available from an FTP server, enter:
ftp:////<your_server_name>//<your_share_name>//<your_path>
//<readme_name>.htm
- Save and close the patch list file.
- Insert the Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 CD into you local computer's CD-ROM
drive.
- On the Start menu (Windows), click Run. Enter the following:
<your_CD-ROM drive>:\BIN\Installer\Support\CADManagerControl
- Double-click CMControl.exe.
- In the CAD Manager utility, in the product list, select Autodesk Civil
3D 2005, and then click OK.
- In the CAD Manager utility, on the Communication Center tab, do the following:
- In the Live Update Configuration list, select Enable Using Local Patch
List.
- In the Local Patch List Location box, enter the patch list file location
(the UNC network path).
- Click Apply to save these settings to your own system.
- At the bottom of the CAD Manager utility, in the drop-down list, select
Create .reg Registry File. Then click OK.
- In the Save As dialog box, save the file to your system. Make note of
this location.
- The registry file must be run at each workstation so the service pack
can be applied. Distribute the registry file to each user (workstation).
Each user should save the file locally and double-click the file from Windows
Explorer to run it.
- At each workstation, the service pack must then be applied using the Communication
Center.
NOTE: Once the registry changes have been applied to the client, the
Communication Center in Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 will alert the users with
a "Maintenance Update Available" notice. When the user clicks on
the notice, a page will be displayed that says "Autodesk Live Update."
This page contains instructions, a description of the patch, and an "Update"
button that will start the patch download and install.
Applying this Service Pack to an Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 Network Administrative Image
The following two methods of distributing Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 Service
Pack 1 apply only to administrative images created with the Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 Network Installation wizard. After you complete these procedures,
any new deployments of Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 will have the service pack
applied to them automatically.
NOTE: In both of the following procedures, the service
pack file that you download contains an MSP (Microsoft Patch) file. You must
extract that file from the executable file. To extract the MSP file from the
executable, use the /e ("extract") switch.
To add Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 Service Pack 1 to a new Autodesk
Civil 3D 2005 administrative image
- From the Autodesk Product Support website, download <Autodesk Civil
3D 2005 Service Pack 1.exe> to your local computer.
- On the Start menu (Windows), click Run. Enter the following information,
and then click OK.
<local drive>:\<patch name>\ /e <local drive>:\<patch
name.msp>
- On the computer where you installed the Network Installation wizard patch,
on the Start menu (Windows), click Programs > Autodesk > Network Installation
Wizard.
- In the Network Installation wizard, on the Welcome page, select Create
an Administrative Image, and then click Next.
- On the Create Administrative Image page, in the Select Autodesk Installer
(MSI) File box, enter the path to c3d.msi, the MSI file you use as
the basis for your administrative image. This file is found on your product
CD-ROM, in CDROM:\BIN\Installer.
- In the Administrative Image Location box, enter an existing shared network
location where you want to create an administrative image, or click Browse
to navigate to a location. Users install Autodesk Civil 3D from this location.
- Select the Apply a Patch (Service Pack) to This Image option.
- In the Select Patch box, enter the path to the patch location (the location
you entered in step 2, including the extension .msp). You can also
Browse to locate the MSP file.
- Click Next, and follow the instructions in the Network Installation wizard
to complete the deployment of this service pack.
To apply Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 Service Pack 1 to an existing Autodesk
Civil 3D 2005 administrative image
- From the Autodesk Product Support website, download <Autodesk Civil
3D 2005 Service Pack 1.exe> to your local computer.
- On the Start menu (Windows), click Run. Enter the following information,
and then click OK.
<local drive>:\<patch name>\ /e <local drive>:\<patch
name.msp>
- On the computer where you installed the Network Installation wizard patch,
on the Start menu (Windows), click Programs > Autodesk > Network Installation
Wizard.
- In the Network Installation wizard, on the Welcome page, select Modify
an Administrative Image, and then click Next.
- On the Modify Administrative Image page, in the Select an MSI File box,
select the existing Autodesk installer file (MSI) from the shared network
location that contains the administrative image you want to modify. Users
install Autodesk Civil 3D from this location.
- Select the Apply a Patch (Service Pack) to This Image option.
- In the Select Patch box, enter the path to the patch location (the location
you entered in step 2, including the extension .msp). You can also
Browse to locate the MSP file.
- Click Next, and follow the instructions in the Network Installation wizard
to complete the deployment of this service pack.
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