Civil 3D 2010 Update 1 Released

In case you missed the traffic on the twitter-spere this AM and you don’t read the Being Civil blog (you should!) here’s the update link, and the readme file too. Big items (to my eye) include:

  • Existing section view band labels are no longer erased when you update a section view group band set. Previously, if you used the Section View Group Properties > Change Band Set option to add a new band, the labels in existing bands were removed. [Major PITA for the DOT folks!]
  • AutoCAD Civil 3D now successfully creates intersections as expected in drawings that contain alignments with coordinate definitions that are comprised of seven or more digits. [Like you know, real world places….]
  • Point markers which use multi-view blocks as the symbol now appear correctly in a drawing. NOTE: A multiview block must be embedded in an AutoCAD block to use it as a point marker. [Thanks for fixing this one!]
  • A profile data band is blank if no surface data is available along a profile. Previously, profile data bands displayed 0.00 for points that had no surface data. [This might be the biggest one to me.]
  • TIN surfaces created from contour data no longer display points with erroneous elevations.  NOTE: If you have surfaces created from contour data and used the MinimizeSurfaceFlatAreas command in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010, rebuild those surfaces. [D’oh! That was nasty, wasn’t it?]

There’s much more, but if you want the whole thing, you can get it from the Readme link. Go get your update on!

4 comments

  1. Is this another “2009 Update 2”? It looks like it’s been taken off the shelf already.

  2. Shane Matt says:

    We are still on 2009. Is everything running smoothly in 2010? Any thing we should be aware of prior to making the switch?

  3. OK, … just republished today. August 3rd. Was unavailable earlier this morning.

  4. Paulius Zlotinas says:

    Where did the service pack line go from About window?
    In 2009 and all previous versions of all possible software it was like:
    Help -> About -> Service Pack