Bright and early on Monday morning, Matt, Zack and myself will be off to Las Vegas to attend Autodesk University 2007. We’re hoping to learn all we can about Civil 3D 2008 so that we can come back to the office and finally get this program up and running. It’s been a long road, migrating from Land Desktop 2004, and it’s been a rather intimidating process.

We’ll be staying at the Venetian Resort & Casino, the host resort of the conference, and our iteneraries are chock full of training, socializing and parties. I’ll be taking lots of pictures and we’ll try to post updates as time permits.

And of course, we’ll convey our experiences here upon our return. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

If your arctext shows up lightly when plotted you can change the font and it will plot correctly. I have learned that Arial Unicode Ms looks good.

Autodesk has announced the release of Service Pack 2 for Civil 3D 2008:

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2008 Service Pack 2, which fixes or addresses a variety of issues discovered by customers and by Autodesk’s internal testing team.

This service pack includes all fixes previously included with AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2008 Service Pack 1. Please see the Readme for additional information. This Service Pack is intended for all versions of AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2008 including those that already have Service Pack 1 installed.

Before applying this service pack, make sure that any customizations made to the user profile (such as, customizations made to the support file search paths, print file customizations, printer support file paths, redirections, custom template settings, and so on) are exported to a secure location, then imported and reapplied after the service pack has been successfully installed.

Readme and Download available here.

To make your isolate command get rid of the fade option just type layiso then, s for settings and type in off, and press enter twice and your isolate will get rid of everything that was previousally “faded out”.

I received this outstanding tip in my Fall 2007 DotSoft CAD Newsletter:

By installing the Raster Design Enabler, you can add support for additional image formats (such as MrSID) to your basic AutoCAD.

From the Autodesk Website: “The Autodesk® Raster Design 2007 Object Enabler is a freeware application that you can use to display Autodesk Raster Design 2007 image files.

Simply visit the link below to download the appropriate enabler for the version of AutoCAD. After you install it, check your image insert ‘files of type’ popdown for the new formats.

http://www.autodesk.com/object-enabler-assistant