http://www.texupport.net/blog AutoCAD / Civil 3D / Windows Utilities and Support Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:00:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In an office full of US English seats of Civil 3D, our users frequently see a dialog which reports a missing language pack when opening DWG files.  I can only assume that at one time a drawing file did contain an object which was worked on in a non-english version of AutoCAD ... http://www.texupport.net/blog/2009/10/09/missing-language-pack-acad-vlx-virus/ For doing the things that I do and visiting the webpages that I routinely go to, I have recently come to the conclusion that Firefox and IE, for all intents and purposes, really aren't all that different. At this point in my career (and life), I simply don't have the ... http://www.texupport.net/blog/2009/01/18/clicking-links-in-outlook-2007-generates-this-operation-has-been-cancelled-due-to-restrictions-in-effect-on-this-computer/ I first began using Norton products in the early 90s, with Norton Advanced Utilities version 4.5, and I was a huge fan of their products for a number of years. For well over a decade, though, Symantec's Norton line of products has been extremely bloated and every one of them ... http://www.texupport.net/blog/2008/12/09/norton-antivirus-2009-finally-delivers/ In Civil 3D 2009, any surface which uses a style under which only one minor contour would show for the entire surface, no contours are shown. This is very difficult to explain verbally, but the image below illustrates the problem. Workarounds: Create a temporary style which shows major contours at the interval that ... http://www.texupport.net/blog/2008/12/09/surfaces-which-should-yield-one-single-minor-contour-dont-show-any-contours-2/ Since rolling out 2009 to a large userbase, we have encountered several drawing files which contain specific layouts within which any viewport will not show filled 2d solids properly. This behavior seems to be specific to AutoCAD 2009. The same drawing files behave as expected in AutoCAD 2008 (and, presumably, ... http://www.texupport.net/blog/2008/12/08/2d-solids-do-not-observe-fillmode-withinin-certain-layouts-2/ Starting with AutoCAD 2009, the most recently used files list is designed to list both DWG and DST files.  Unfortunately, once nine (cumulative) DST files have been opened by one user, then the most recently used documents list will no longer contain drawing files.  Workarounds: I wrote this command to completely reset ... http://www.texupport.net/blog/2008/12/02/most-recently-used-documents-fills-up-with-dst-files/ 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 ... http://www.texupport.net/blog/2008/11/19/hacking-the-nvidia-performance-driver-powerdraft-into-civil-3d/ 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 ... http://www.texupport.net/blog/2008/11/18/regappid-cleanup-utility/ 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 ... http://www.texupport.net/blog/2008/11/18/importing-color-images-from-google-earth-into-civil-3d/ 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 ... http://www.texupport.net/blog/2008/11/17/sheet-set-templates-must-have-have-all-lowercase-dst-extension/