SP3 on previously-patched Admin Image
This might be common knowledge for some, but maybe it will help others who are patching an existing C3D Network Deployment Admin image with SP3.The Readme file states that SP3 can’t be applied to an...
View ArticleFriday Night Fun!
Come on, you know you want to sit at home and play with Civil 3D on Friday night like the nerds here do…now you can! According to Dave Simeone’s post, US Subscription customers can now request a home...
View ArticleIs it Voodoo or is it Riverbed?
I’ve been a huge fan of Riverbed‘s Steelhead appliances ever since I put a pair in place at JBI to link our Fort Worth and Dallas offices. The technology they use to shorten data communication across...
View ArticleTime for a Coffee Break?
You got your C3D & LDT media, fired it up, and started creating some Deployments. So you read some e-mail and surfed the web. Celebrated a birthday. Read War & Peace. What the hell is taking so...
View ArticleCome Get Your Learn On!
Throughout September & October, Mark and I are hitting the road. I’m dropping in on a LUG next week, then we’re teaming up with great instructors like Heidi Hewitt, Lynn Allen, and Matt Murphy to...
View ArticleDWG to Play Nice with WAN Guys
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you. In what can only be seen a a complete refusal of Autodesk to listen to my completely narrow and unfounded business advice, they’re changing the dwg format to play along...
View ArticleWe Don’t Need No Stinking Patches
Well, yeah, ok maybe we do. Especially if we’re running Vault. Somehow, the boys and girls in Manchester managed to get the patch for 2008 to play with ADMS (Vault) 2009 uploaded and it slipped by us....
View ArticleSetting Frame, Grate & Cover for Parts
Have you ever wanted to enter custom data for Frame, Grate, and Cover in the Civil 3D Parts Lists? If you have, you may have had difficulties getting the data to stick (at least with Civil 3D 2009)....
View ArticleSurvey User, Pipe Catalog and AutoCAD Profile Settings
As described in the post “Setting the Survey database Units (Coordinate System) could be CRITICAL” and followed up in the post “Pushing Survey Database Defaults” there are settings you may want to pay...
View ArticlePressure Pipe Modeling with the Corridor Tools (PART II)
As a follow-up to the post “Pressure Pipe Modeling with the Corridor Tools“ see how to apply a design to your model, how the model updates all the crossings, and how you can project the design pressure...
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