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Hacking the Nvidia performance driver (powerdraft) into Civil 3D
Several months ago, Nvidia released a performance driver for AutoCAD 2009. Unfortunately, using the included installer, this driver can only be installed on AutoCAD. When you only have Civil 3D installed, you get an error which reads, “Setup was unable to find an installed version of AutoCAD 2009.”
I was able to hack the driver in [...]
RegappID cleanup utility
It just came to my attention that Autodesk quietly released their own RegApp cleaner a couple of months ago. This still doesn’t do anything to prevent Registered Application IDs from propagating through xrefs and inserts so unless you clean everything that your file might come into contact with, you can count on getting infected with [...]
Importing color images from Google Earth into Civil 3D
Since Civil 3D added the ability to import georeferenced imagery from Google Earth, I regularly get comments from users who would prefer the image to appear in color. While it doesn’t appear to be a feature, with a little hacking this is actually very easy to do.
First, open your Civil 3D drawing file and make [...]
Sheet set templates must have have all lowercase dst extension
When creating a sheet set template by placing a DST file in the SheetSetTemplatePath location, the file must absolutely have an extension of .dst (case sensitive).
If an uppercase character exists in the extension, the sheetset template appears with the extension in the listbox and the system will then search for YourTemplateName.DST.dst.
When it doesn’t find the template, [...]