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Tables which include delta angle cause fatal errors
Certain drawings* previously created in LDT2006, will crash with a fatal error when you try to create a curve table that includes a column with the DELTA ANGLE. If you remove this column, the table works
* I say certain drawings, because we just started working in LDT2008 – we have not determined if this is [...]
*** PROFILE COMMANDS DO NOT WORK ***
In Land Desktop 2008, most profile manipulation commands simply do not work. This is absolutely inexcusable as profiling is integral to all civil design work. This is definitely a bug that warrants a pre-service pack hotfix. Autodesk’s reply to me is as follows:
Thank you for contacting Autodesk Support.
The issue that you are having is a [...]
Purge can break contour styles
If a text style only exists in your drawing within a contour style, AutoCAD’s purge command considers it unused.
Workarounds: Create your contour stiyles using a text style that you know will never be purgeable.
First Appeared: Land Desktop 2 (2000)
Status as of 2008: Still reproducible
Status as of 2009: (unknown)
“Error reading surf_head for VRT file” while generating profiles
After sampling existing ground, going to PROFILES / CREATE PROFILE / EXISTING PROFILE yields an error, “Error reading surf_head for VRT file”.
Workarounds: This bug seems to be drawing specific rather than project specific or user specific. There are several theories in Autodesks discussion groups. The only time that I encountered it, I was able to [...]
Coordinate Tracking is inaccurate when VIEWTWIST 0
When you’re working in a twisted view, and you turn on LDT’s Northing / Easting tracking, the values reported are several feet off.
Workarounds: Use AutoCAD’s coordinate tracking in the status bar (F6)
First Appeared: Many releases ago
Status as of 2008: Still reproducible
Status as of 2009: (unknown)
Color field is missing from properties when contour is included in selection set
Typically, when a selection set includes various kinds of entities, their common features are visible in properties. When a contour is part of a selection set that also includes non-contours, then the color property isn’t available in properties.
Exhibit A – Selection set of several types of entities.
Exhibit B – Contour added to selection set.
Workarounds: Use [...]
This version of AutoCAD was not installed properly (2006 vertical specific)
After installing Land Desktop 2006 with Civil Design and / or Survey 2006 from a silent deployment, you receive a message stating that AutoCAD wasn’t properly installed when launching LDT as a second user.
Caveats: There is a hotfix (see below), but it will only work for new installations. To fix existing installations, you must first [...]
Middle mouse button stops responding
When MBUTTONPAN is set to 0 and you are using a CUSTOM.CUI as your main CUI, with LAND.CUI, EXPRESS.CUI, and CIVIL.CUI as partials, the middle button stops working immediately after using any Land Desktop command.
Workaround: In Config / Profiles, select the current profile and re-set it as current
First Appeared: Land Desktop 2006
Status as of 2006 [...]
Symbols insert at 1/12 of intended scale
Some (but not all) of the blocks that shipped with Land Desktop 2006 have some associated lisp code that runs when they are inserted. It appears that much of this code predated the new interpretation of INSUNITS, and wasn’t updated to account for it. When using Autodesk’s own functions to insert any of these blocks, [...]
Slow Points Listing
When listing points (Points > List Points), it can take several minutes to populate the points list.
Workarounds: If you have maximized or otherwise resized your points window, stretching it back to its original size causes the points list to populate as fast as before.
First Appeared: Land Desktop 3
Status as of 2006: Still reproducible
Status as of [...]