Readme for the Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2007 Service
Pack 3 Extension For Google Earth™
Autodesk Civil 3D 2007
SP3 Extension For Google Earth
This Readme contains information regarding
the installation and use of this Extension. It is strongly recommended that you
read this entire document before you apply the Extension 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:
About
the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3 Extension For Google Earth
Use
the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3 Extension for Google Earth to publish a Google
Earth model from your Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3 design data. You can publish
points, alignments, parcels, pipe networks, corridor models, and surfaces. Data
is displayed either draped to the ground model, or positioned at an elevation
above the ground model, so you can see how your civil data will appear in the
real world.
Installing
the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3 Extension For Google Earth
The Autodesk
Civil 3D 2007 SP3 Extension For Google Earth is installed to your current Autodesk
Civil 3D 2007 folder locations. You must have Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Service Pack
3 installed before you can install the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3 Extension For
Google Earth.
To install this Extension:
- Close any open
sessions of Autodesk Civil 3D 2007.
- If Service Pack 3 for Autodesk Civil 3D
2007 is not already installed, you must install it prior to installing the SP3
Extension For Google Earth.
- Download C3D2007_GoogleEarthPublisher_R3.zip to
a local folder on your computer.
- Unzip the file using WinZip.
- Double-click
the setup.exe file to begin the installation.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
The
installation process adds a GE Publisher menu to your Autodesk Civil 3D
2007 SP3 menu bar. Access the Publish to Google Earth command from this menu.
To
use the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3 Extension For Google Earth, you should have
version 3 or 4 of Google Earth, Google Earth Plus, or Google Earth Pro installed.
Google Earth is available from the following website: http://earth.google.com/
Online Help
Online help for the Autodesk
Civil 3D 2007 SP3 Extension For Google Earth is available by clicking the Help
buttons in the dialog boxes. The help file, civil_gep.chm, is installed to the
Autodesk Civil 3D 2007\data\PublishKML folder.
Known
Issues
- Settings are not persistent for restricted users. When using
the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3 Extension For Google Earth as a restricted user,
changes to the settings do not persist between uses of the Publish To Google Earth
command.
- If Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Extension for Google Earth
release 1 or release 2 was previously installed and accordingly uninstalled prior
to the installation of Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3 Extension For Google Earth,
the GE Publisher menu may not be displayed in your Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3
menu bar.
To resolve this issue:
- Within a session of
Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3, enter CUI on the command line.
- In the
CUI dialog box, on the Customize tab, under CIVIL > Workspaces, select Civil
3D, right click, and select Set Current.
Note: The workspace may already
be marked as current but you must select it as current again to restore the GE
Publisher menu.
- Click OK.
The GE Publisher menu will be displayed
in the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3 menu bar.
- When attempting
to install the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3 Extension For Google Earth, you may
receive an error message indicating that Service Pack 3 for Autodesk Civil 3D
2007 must be installed even though you have already installed it. Your system
likely contains multiple AutoCAD 2007-based products installed such as AutoCAD,
Map 3D, Architectural Desktop, Building Systems, or Mechanical Desktop.
To
resolve this issue, launch and close Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3 just prior to
installing the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 SP3 Extension For Google Earth. This will
allow the Extension installation to proceed.
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