Readme for the AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion
2008 Service Pack 2
In a continuing effort to provide
high quality products, Autodesk has released the AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop
Companion 2008 Service Pack 2. AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 Service
Pack 2 is cumulative -- it contains all the updates that were included in AutoCAD
Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 Service Pack 1. Therefore it is not necessary
to install AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 Service Pack 1.
AutoCAD
Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 Service Pack 2 also contains all the fixes
included in the AutoCAD 2008 Service Pack 1, the AutoCAD Map 3D 2008 Service Pack
1, as well as several AutoCAD 2008 hotfixes.
This Readme contains
information regarding the installation and use of this Service Pack. It is strongly
recommended that you read this entire document before you apply the Service Pack
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:
Who
Should Install This Service Pack?
This Service Pack, LDC2008_SP2.exe,
is for all versions of AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 running on
English-language and non-English-language operating systems.
General
Installation Information
Important: You cannot run an automatic uninstall to
remove this service pack. To restore your version of AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop
Companion 2008 to its pre-service pack state, uninstall AutoCAD Civil 3D Land
Desktop Companion 2008 and reinstall it.
Windows
Command Line Switches
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.
Applying this Service Pack to a Stand-alone Installation
- Download LDC2008_SP2.exe and save it to any folder.
- Insert your
AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 media into your media drive.
- Navigate
to the folder where you saved the service pack.
- 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
- On
a machine that has AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 installed, install
the CAD Manager Tools 4.0. To install the CAD Manager Tools 4.0 , insert the AutoCAD
Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 product media and select Install Tools and
Utilities. On the Welcome screen click Next. On the Select Products To Install
page select CAD Manager Tools 4.0.
NOTE: The service pack should not
be installed on this machine.
- On a shared location, create a folder
where the patches will be downloaded to (example: \\servername\shared_folder_location\
).
- Click Start > Programs > Autodesk > CAD Manager Tools > CAD
Manager Control Utility.
- Select AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008
from the drop-down list and click OK.
- On the Info Center tab, under Communication
Center Panel, select Enable Live updates. From the drop-down list, select Receive
Live Updates from Local Network.
- Select Browse and browse to the previously
created shared location (example: \\servername\shared_folder_location\ ).
- Select
Manage Patches. This option will connect with the Autodesk servers and allow you
to download any available patches for your current installation of AutoCAD Civil
3D Land Desktop Companion 2008.
- Under Manage Patches you will see AutoCAD
Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 Service Packs listed. Select the service
pack you want to apply. Under Action Type select Add To Patch Folder and select
Update Patch Folder.
- Under details you will see “downloaded to local
patch folder on <time><date>".
- Click Close.
In AutoCAD
Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008, ensure the Communication Center is configured.
Once it is configured you will see that a Live Update Maintenance Patch is available.
Applying this Service Pack to an
AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 Network Administrative Image
The following two methods of distributing AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion
2008 Service Pack 2 apply only to administrative images created with the AutoCAD
Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 Network Installation wizard. After you complete
these procedures, any new deployments of AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion
2008 will have the service pack applied to them automatically.
Warning:
You cannot modify a deployment that already includes AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop
Companion 2008 Service Pack 1. Attempting to include AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop
Companion 2008 Service Pack 2 in a deployment that already has AutoCAD Civil 3D
Land Desktop Companion 2008 SP1 merged to it will result in the error message
"\\server_name\path\LDC2008_SP2.msp is not a valid patch for this product."
You must create a new deployment for AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008
Service Pack 2.
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 AutoCAD Civil
3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 Service Pack 2 to a new AutoCAD Civil 3D
Land Desktop Companion 2008 administrative image
- From the Autodesk Product Support website, download <LDC2008_SP2.exe>
to your local computer.
- 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>
- From the installation media, select Create Deployment.
- Select the location of your deployment and provide a name, and then
click Next.
- Select the products you would like to install, and then click Next.
- On the Configure page, select the Configure button to customize the
deployment.
- Continue with the customizations of the deployment. On the Include Service
Packs page, use the ellipses button to browse to the location of the MSP
file that was downloaded and extracted from the executable file.
- Select the merge installation of the service pack option. Merging the
installation installs both during the product installation.
NOTE: You must select the "Merge the service
packs into the administrative image MSI file" method of including
the service pack. Do not select the option to append the administrative
image because that method will not include the service pack in the installation.
- Complete the customizations and select Configuration Complete, then
select Create Deployment.
To apply AutoCAD
Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 Service Pack 2 to an existing AutoCAD
Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 administrative image
NOTE:
Before applying this AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 Service Pack
2 to the existing AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 administrative
image, make sure that all client machines have already been updated with the Service
Pack 2.
- From the Autodesk Product Support website, download LDC2008_SP2.exe
to your local computer.
- 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>
- On the computer where you created the original AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop
Companion 2008 deployment there is a "modify <deployment name>"
shortcut. Double-click this shortcut.
- On the Install Framework, you can select a new name or location for the
deployment.
- On the Begin Deployment page, specify a new name or leave the name as-is.
- Review and make any changes required on the Review - Configure - Create
Deployment page.
- Select Configure, then make any appropriate changes in the Include Service
Packs page, then use the ellipses button to browse to the location of the
MSP file that was downloaded and extracted from the executable file.
- Select the merge installation of the service pack option. Merging the
installation installs both during the product installation.
NOTE: You must select the "Merge the service
packs into the administrative image MSI file" method of including
the service pack. Do not select the option to append the administrative
image because that method will not include the service pack in the installation.
- Complete the customizations and select Configuration Complete, and then
select Create Deployment. Now any new deployments of AutoCAD Civil 3D Land
Desktop Companion 2008 will have the service pack applied to them automatically.
Issues
Resolved in AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 Service Pack 2
This Service Pack resolves the following issues:
-
An issue with creating section top surface breaklines has been resolved.
Cross
Sections
- The program no longer terminates unexpectedly
when sampling cross sections from a file.
- Editing design
control slopes no longer changes the defined station ranges of templates along
an alignment.
Points
- The program
no longer terminates unexpectedly when trying to close the Point Group Manager
after printing a point group list.
- An issue with not being
able to create point tables has been resolved.
Publishing
- The program no longer terminates unexpectedly when updating
a plot style and then publishing from Sheet Set Manager using Publish > Publish
Using Page Setup Override.
AutoCAD Civil
3D Land Desktop Companion 2008 Service Pack 1 resolves the following issues. The
resolution for these issues is included in this Service Pack 2.
An issue with annotation scaling
has been resolved. Now when you select a text style that supports annotation scaling
(such as Leroy_a.stp), the Annotative property is set to Yes, and the text scales
as expected.
The program no longer fails unexpectedly when using projects with long project
file names.
Editing Design Control using
the View/Edit Sections command no longer applies the template to the entire alignment
. Now it applies the template to only the selected station, as expected.
Labels
An issue with inserted blocks not displaying on point labels has been resolved.
Now when you insert a block into a point label style, and then create or insert
a point into a drawing, the block is displayed as expected for the point.
An issue with north, south, east, and west designators displayed for azimuth angle
labels has been resolved. Now azimuth angle labels do not display north, south,
east, and\or west designators.
An issue with
labels displaying spaces between north, south, east, and west designators has
been resolved.
An issue with labels (dynamic
and static) not displaying zeros for units less than ten has been resolved. For
example, instead of displaying units less than 10 as 9, 7, 5, labels now display
units less than 10 as 09, 07, 05 as expected.
An issue with dynamic labels resetting values after grip editing has been resolved.
Profiles
SHP Files
Import of SHP files created in other GIS applications
has been improved. All of your parcel polygons will now be exported when you
export SHP files. The Display Manager now displays all features on SHP layers.
Plotting
When plotting FDO raster layers, you can now expect an image
resolution comparable to that displayed in AutoCAD Raster Design regardless of
view scale. When plotting, you can now expect to see the same styles displayed
in Plot Preview as you will see in the actual printed result.
General Issues
DWF
files published in Map 3D 2008 will now be approximately the same size as those
published in Map 3D 2007. DGN import has been improved. You can now successfully
export a Map with joined data to a DWG file. The performance of SDF files
has improved by 20%. You can now successfully select a feature when the view
scale for a LAYER file is zoomed in all the way. You can now successfully
use the Zoom feature to view raster layers in Layout View. AutoCAD Blocks
The
text style in AutoCAD blocks in SDF layers will now display at the orientation
to which it is set. You can now successfully insert AutoCAD blocks with hatching
in the Display Manager. Style Editor
You can now successfully select
a new theme after editing a fill style. You can now successfully create themes
in SDF files with view scale information. Oracle Connections
You can
now export a DWG that is set to an arbitrary X-Y coordinate system without losing
your Oracle connection. You can now successfully check out or update Oracle
data that uses a foreign schema for a version-enabled table. API Users
Calling
the API function AcMapLayer.GetFeatureData(…) with valid entity IDs will
now return an MgFeatureReader with valid Identity properties for each Feature.
Calling the API function AcMapLayer.UpdateFeatures(…) with an MgInsertFeatures
command now properly returns an MgFeatureProperty with a type of MgPropertyType.Feature,
and with a value of an MgFeatureReader containing the IDs of newly-created features.
In addition, you must now use AcMapLayer.UpdateFeatures(…) instead of AcMapFeatureService.UpdateFeatures(…)
for all editing operations, including Insert, Update, Delete, Lock, and Unlock.
AutoCAD Map 3D 2008 will now call the API function GetCurrentMap(…) in
multiple open documents without quitting unexpectedly or becoming unstable. .NET API
- ObjectID.Open no longer causes a crash
-
Removing a handler from Database.ObjectAppended then firing the event now generates
an error message
64-Bit
-
vl-arx-import now functions for namespaces separate from VLX
-
i-Drop is operating correctly
Annotation Scaling
- When dragging and dropping a named view from
the style sheet manager to the host drawing, the annotation scaling features work
properly
- Custom scales which exist in the nested xrefs
are no longer duplicated in the host drawing
- Blocks in the Tool Palettes created
from the DesignCenter annotative drawings are now annotative
Attributes
- Multiline attributes
no longer shift positions every time drawings are saved and opened
-
The Value field for an attribute definition may now be modified in the Property
Palette
Blocks
- The
Y-scale factor of inserted blocks is now scaled accurately
Communication
Center
- The Communication Center is now enabled by default.
Dashboards
- The dashboard panel configuration is now maintained throughout
different workspaces and user sessions
Data Extraction
- All dynamic block properties are now correctly extracted
Dimensions
- Radial
extension arcs may now be disabled, restoring the ability to dimension small radii
- The In-Place dimension text editor size is now correct
- Round-off dimension values now appear correctly
- Dimension breaks no longer cause AutoCAD to hang
Display
- Linetypes now always display properly after zooming operations
DWG
- Copy/paste now
works in the drawings saved as 2000 and then resaved in AutoCAD 2004, AutoCAD
2005, or AutoCAD 2006
E-Transmit
-
AutoCAD 2000 and Release 14 file formats are preserved while using ETRANSMIT with
the "Keep existing drawing file formats" setting enabled
Fields
- Drawing name field now always plots correctly
Hatch
- The BHATCH command boundary
detection mechanism has been improved
Image
- Image frames are no longer plotted or displayed when IMAGEFRAME
is set to 0
Layouts
-
The ampersand character ("&") may now be entered on the Layout tab
Multileader
- The location of attributes in multileader block is no
longer off-center
- Multileader text no longer unexpectedly
rotates
- Multileader attributes are no longer off-center in
a rotated UCS
MText
-
MText tabs are now saved correctly to the older DWG formats
-
Certain Japanese characters are displayed correctly
- Portuguese
(Iberian and Brazilian) dictionaries now have accented capital letters
Open/Save
- If multiple drawings are opened in Explorer, only a single
instance of AutoCAD containing those drawings will launch
Object
Snap
- Object snaps now work correctly in blocks
PDF Export
- Raster
images now plot correctly to PDF
Performance Tuner
- If there are no new drivers, the "New Driver" bubble does
not appear
Plot
-
Plotting performance of rotated MrSID images is improved
Tables
- Data linked cell formatting is now correct
-
Excel formatting is kept when the paste special (PASTESPEC) command is used
Tool
Palette
- Icons are no longer truncated
Visual
Styles
- Erroneous lines and display artifacts
no longer show up after multiple zooming operations
XREF
- Drawings with long reference paths are referenced properly
Known Issues With This Service Pack
Problems
Reported with the Customer Error Reporting Utility
As a result of detailed
information from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, a number
of problems were identified and fixed in the following areas:
- .NET API
- 2D Display
- 3D Display
- 3D Navigation
- Annotation Scaling
- Attributes
- Blocks
- Copy and Paste
- Customer Involvement
Program
- Dashboard
- Design Center
- Dimensions
- DWF Creation
- eTransmit
- External References
- File Navigation
- Hatches
- Hide
- Images
- Infocenter
- Layers
- Layouts
- Lights
- Materials
- Multileaders
- Multiline Text
- Object Editing
- Object Linking and
Embedding (OLE)
- Open, Save, and Close
- Options
- Object Snap
- Plot
- Properties Palette
- Publish
- Random Crashes
- Recover
- Render
- Selection
- Sheet Set Manager
- Standards
- Tables
- Text
- Tool Palettes
- Tooltips
- Trim
- Undo and Redo
- Viewports
- Visual Lisp
-
Linetype scale now returns the expected results.
-
Attempting to insert a raster image after installing AutoCAD 2008 SP1 no longer
causes the program to close unexpectedly.
-
Changing the default install folder no longer prevents a secondary user from launching
AutoCAD.
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