This Service Pack resolves the following issues:

General

• Memory usage has been improved when performing the following functions: labeling, masking of pipe objects, regenerating drawings, and plotting.
• Using the Alignment Grid View on multiple drawings no longer causes the program to close unexpectedly.
• Label text masking now plots as expected when using named plot styles.
• The text height on an xref label now scales as expected in a paper space viewport.
• An issue with zooming to a surface or to an assembly has been resolved.
• When you open a drawing that has been migrated from Autodesk Civil 3D 2006 to Autodesk Civil 3D 2007, the Display tab of the Profile Style dialog box now displays the 3D Chain component type in the Component Display list.
• An issue with drawings not showing existing ground profiles due to alignments containing problematic geometry has been resolved.
• An issue with running Audit has been resolved. Audit no longer removes the points and all of the styles from the drawing when it encounters an issue with an individual style.

Alignments

• Clicking on a plot area label now responds as expected.
• Straights displayed in a horizontal geometry profile box are now correctly represented (displayed and annotated) as straights instead of curves.
• When two or more chainage equations are added to an alignment, the profile view data box now reflects accurate chainage values.
• An issue with invalid plot creation when deleting alignment segments has been resolved.

Corridor

• Slope values for the following subassemblies now migrate correctly: LinkOffsetAndSlope, LinkSlopeAndVerticalDeflection, LinkSlopeToElevation, LinkSlopeToSurface, LinkWidthAndSlope.
• When creating cul-de-sacs that are modeled with the corridor object, the offset from the arc now computes correctly when the offset point is located at exact center of the arc.
• Accessing the Subassembly Properties dialog box no longer causes the program to become unresponsive.
• Civil 3D 2006 drawings containing subassemblies with slope values now open successfully.

Grading

• Transitions using relative level criteria are now created correctly. Previously, the projections were sometimes created with incorrect distances.
• Several issues that prevented drawings containing problematic grading geometry from opening have been resolved.
• A performance issue with grading into a surface has been resolved. For example, grading a pond into a surface now completes in a more acceptable amount of time.
• Pasting a grading surface into a corridor surface then saving now responds as expected.
• An issue with opening a drawing containing grading feature lines, after closing another drawing, has been resolved.

Labels

• An issue with plot labels not scaling correctly in paper space has been resolved. Plot labels now display as expected in paper space.
• An issue with using the Undo command to remove plot labels that had just been added has been resolved. The problem occurred if you later added more Plot labels to that site. This issue caused the program to terminate unexpectedly when you tried to save the drawing, or when you tried to reopen the drawing if it saved successfully.

Pipes

• An issue with pipes in a Profile View when connected structures are displayed as a solid has been resolved. Note that in the Structure Style dialog box, the "Enable part masking" check box is now hidden when the structure is being displayed as a solid. It is recommended that you use the “Display as boundary” option in the Profile tab of the Structure Style dialog box. The performance of this option is significantly faster than when the “Display as solid” option is used. Note that the “Display as boundary” option is the default for new styles, but existing styles from Autodesk Civil 3D 2006 are set to “Display as solid".
• An issue with structures displaying as blocks in Profile Views has been resolved. Masking now works as expected.
• An issue with drawings containing pipe networks that are parallel to sample lines has been resolved. Drawings containing pipe networks that are parallel to sample lines no longer terminate unexpectedly.
• An issue with pipe network references creating dependent object data (such as alignments and profiles) has been resolved. Now when you create a pipe network reference, dependent objects do not get created.

Points

• Points modified in the Prospector tree and drawn by point groups other than the All Points point group now update appropriately.
• An issue with using the Point Editor to change point styles, point label styles, or point layers has been resolved. The Point Editor now responds appropriately when you change these items.
• An issue with opening a new drawing using a 2006 drawing template has been resolved. Drawings that have an external data reference in the point settings can now be updated successfully.

Quantity Takeoff Reports

• Calculating volumes when more than one material is a structure type now works correctly.
• Incremental volume values for materials in the Select Materials reports are now reported correctly.
• Fill factors are now applied correctly for structure type materials and material areas.
• Switching the type for a material in the Material List tab of the Sample Line Group Properties dialog box now works as expected.
• The program responds as expected when deleting shapes from materials and adding shapes to materials in the Material List tab of the Sample Line Group Properties dialog box.
• Volume tables now display accurate values for structure type materials, and also react dynamically when editing volume related information.
• The list of available corridor shapes now displays accurately in the Select Corridor Shape list in the Quantity Takeoff Criteria dialog box.

Survey

• Modifying and updating multiple dependent Survey Networks now produces accurate results.
• When inserting figures into a drawing with different zones, the program no longer closes unexpectedly.
• When creating a figure from 3D objects in the drawing, vertex levels displayed during an inverse or mapcheck now display accurately.
• When using the Export to Field Book command, figures that are created from objects containing non-straight curves using the Create From Object command, now export and reimport correctly.
• The Traverse Analysis command now finds the closing side under the following circumstances:
  A closed loop traverse is run where the starting chainage's coordinates are known and a reference direction and observations to the final chainage are taken. The traverse proceeds to the last chainage where closing observations are taken to the first chainage. For a four-sided traverse, the definition is as follows:
  
  Initial chainage = 1
  Initial backsight = 4
  Chainages = 2-4
  Final foresight = 1>
  
  

• Icons displayed in the Survey Points collection now accurately represent the current state of items in the Control Points collection.
• The Survey tab now opens as expected in Toolspace when you use a survey command.
• Issues with zooming or panning to an object from the Prospector or Survey tab when a UCS is in use in the drawing have been resolved.
• The Create Figure From Object/Update Figure from Drawing command now assigns the proper level values.

This Service Pack also includes resolution for the following AutoCAD issue:

• Saving or autosaving a drawing file results in a fatal error followed by the CER dialog. This issue occurs randomly.

This Service Pack, C3D2007_SP1A.exe, is for all versions of Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 running on English-language and non-English-language operating systems. Please note the following before installing this Service Pack:

• You can install this Service Pack on systems that have already had the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Service Pack 1 (C3D2007_SP1.exe) installed.

• It is not necessary to install Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Service Pack 1 (C3D2007_SP1.exe) before installing this Service Pack (C3D2007_SP1A.exe).

• You cannot run an automatic uninstall to remove this Service Pack.

• If you already downloaded and installed the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Service Pack 1 (C3D2007_SP1.exe), you should simply install this Service Pack (C3D2007_SP1A.exe) over it.

• Note that after you install this Service Pack, the Survey menu is removed from the Autodesk Civil 3D menu bar. To get the Survey menu to display on the menu bar, enter "wscurrent" at the command line, and then press Enter to accept the "Civil 3D" default.

• It is recommended that you create a backup of all custom CUI (menu customization) files before installing the service pack. These files are located in your \Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Autodesk\C3D 2007\enu\Support folder.

• During the installation of this update, you may be prompted for the original installation media (CDs or DVD) or network image.

The Windows command line switches built into this service pack are as follows:

• /e - Extracts the MSP file from the service pack executable.
• /p - Extracts a patch list from the service pack executable.
• /q - Suppresses the completion message after the service pack is applied. This is useful if you use a script or batch file to apply the service pack to multiple computers.

Instructions about how to use these command line switches are included in the procedures that follow.

1. Download C3D2007_SP1A.exe and save it to any folder.
2. Insert your Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 media into your media drive.
3. Navigate to the folder where you saved the service pack.
4. Double-click the executable file for the service pack to install it.

Applying this Service Pack Through Your Local Network Using a Patch List

Use this procedure if you want to use Communication Center to apply this service pack through your local network.

To apply this service pack through Communication Center using local patch list functionality

To configure a local patch list, follow the steps below.

1. Before performing this procedure, make sure that the following requirements have been met on the machine that is used to do the local patch list configuration:- Civil 3D 2007 must be installed - Current update (service pack) must not be applied to Civil 3D 2007 - CAD Manager Control Utility 4.0 must be installed
2. Launch the CAD Manager Control Utility.
3. For Product, choose Autodesk Civil 3D 2007.
4. On the Communication Center tab, choose "Receive Live Updates from local network" from the look up list.
5. Browse to the shared folder that you will download the updates (this service pack) to using UNC path. The patchlist.npl file will be created automatically.
6. Select the Manage Patches button. (This will only work if the current update\service pack has not yet been applied to Civil 3D 2007).
7. Set the action type to Add to patch folder by using the action type icon and selecting the popup menu choice.
8. Select the Update patch folder. This will download the update\service pack from the Autodesk server, and make it available for other users to access from the defined location.
9. Apply the changes.
10. At the bottom of the CAD Manager utility, in the drop-down list, select "Create .reg registry file". Then click OK.
11. In the Save As dialog box, save the file to your system. Make a note of this location.
12. The registry file is now ready to be made available to users.
13. Install Updates from the Communication Center in Civil 3D 2007.

NOTE: Once the registry changes have been applied to the client, the Communication Center in Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 will alert the users with a "Maintenance Update Available" notice. When the user clicks on the notice, a page will be displayed that says "Autodesk Live Update." This page contains instructions, a description of the patch, and an "Update" button that will start the patch download and install.

The following two methods of distributing Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Service Pack 1A apply only to administrative images created with the Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Deployment wizard. After you complete these procedures, any new deployments of Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 will have the service pack applied to them automatically.

NOTE: In both of the following procedures, the service pack file that you download contains an MSP (Microsoft Patch) file. You must extract that file from the executable file. To extract the MSP file from the executable, use the /e ("extract") switch.

To add Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Service Pack 1A to a new Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 administrative image

1. From the Autodesk Product Support website, download <Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Service Pack 1A.exe> to your local computer.
2. On the Start menu (Windows), click Run. Enter the following information, and then click OK.

<local drive>:\<patch name>\ /e <local drive>:\<patch name.msp>

3. On the computer where you installed the Deployment wizard patch, on the Start menu (Windows), click Programs > Autodesk > Deployment Wizard.
4. In the Deployment wizard, on the Welcome page, select Create an Administrative Image, and then click Next.
5. On the Create Administrative Image page, in the Select Autodesk Installer (MSI) File box, enter the path to c3d.msi, the MSI file you use as the basis for your administrative image. This file is found on your product media, in \BIN\Installer.
6. In the Administrative Image Location box, enter an existing shared network location where you want to create an administrative image, or click Browse to navigate to a location. Users install Autodesk Civil 3D from this location.
7. Select the Apply a Patch (Service Pack) to This Image option.
8. In the Select Patch box, enter the path to the patch location (the location you entered in step 2, including the extension .msp ). You can also Browse to locate the MSP file.
9. Click Next, and follow the instructions in the Deployment wizard to complete the deployment of this service pack.

To apply Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Service Pack 1A to an existing Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 administrative image

NOTE: Before applying this Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 Service Pack 1A to the existing Autodesk Civil 3D 2007 administrative image, make sure that all client machines have already been updated with the Service Pack 1A.

1. From the Autodesk Product Support website, download C3D2007_SP1A.exe to your local computer.
2. On the Start menu (Windows), click Run. Enter the following information, and then click OK.

<local drive>:\<patch name>\ /e <local drive>:\<patch name.msp>

3. On the computer where you installed the Deployment wizard patch, on the Start menu (Windows), click Programs > Autodesk > Deployment wizard.
4. In the Deployment wizard, on the Welcome page, select Modify An Administrative Image, and then click Next.
5. On the Modify Administrative Image page, in the Select An MSI File box, select the existing Autodesk installer file (MSI) from the shared network location that contains the administrative image you want to modify.
6. Select the Apply A Patch (Service Pack) To This Image option.
7. In the Select Patch box, enter the path to the patch location (the location you entered in step 2, including the extension .msp ). You can also Browse to locate the MSP file.
8. Click Next, and follow the instructions in the Deployment wizard to complete the deployment of this service pack.