Sometimes when I select a polyline with many vertices (extracted contour line) Civil 3D 2011 almost stops working. I have tried locking the layer, but this still slow to a crawl.
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
NVidia GeoForce - 8Gigs Ram - Vista 64 bit
I have a scene (original Sketchup > 3ds > max) with 100's of thousands of objects. About 60 odd materials. Due to mapping being specific I'm manually converting the standard materials to VRay Materials (latest vray 2.3) - Yes I'm NOT using the VRayScene Converter in this case. Even with ALL OBJECTS HIDDEN, after I get to like the 10th or 11th subobject material, max just suddenly slows down to a crawl. Just to change a colour swatch (not even a bitmap) takes sometimes like 2 minutes or longer for max to respond. I thought maybe it's an UNDO issue so I set UNDO levels to just 1. This didn't work. With Nitrous, I have viewport progressive refinement switched OFF. I tried switching to OpenGL and the viewports are actually MUCH more responsive in wireframe. In OpenGL it seems to last longer before the slowdowns start again. I'm not even at the render stage yet.
I'm on Win7 64bit with 16GB Ram. i7 2600k and 2 X SSD in raid 0. I have an ATI 6990 4GB with the lastest drivers (Catalyst 12.6). Max has the latest update3 installed.
Graphic drivers are up to date.Photoshop is up to date.I cranked up the ram to 20GB in "Performance".
Quick system specs:-
i7 920 @ 3.3 GHz
- 24GB RAM 1600 MHz
- 10K raptor drive
- 6950 2GB
I have a data-linked table (from an Excel 2007 file, 32-bit) in an Autocad 2010 drawing (64-bit, Windows 7 OS).
If the table is displayed as a single column, with table breaks off, the file will save within seconds.
If I enable table breaks, it will take at least 3-5 minutes for the drawing file to save.
I am unable to find any solution. I've tried using different table styles, different linked files/drawings, saving locally vs. on the network, headers and titles repeating vs not. The slowness is a major productivity killer.
I recently exploded text but now i need it to be a Polyline, when using PEDIT.
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Civil 3D 2014
Windows 7 Professional
Intel Xeon E31270 @ 3.4 GHz
8 GB, 64-bit
I want to convert a 3D polyline to 2D polyline.
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- oblique angles
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I used to be able to hatch most anything without problem. Now with Civil 3d 2011 anything more complex that a box or a circle AutoCAD will not find the boundary even when the quick preview seems to find a boundary.
I've tried overlapping the lines and then trimming. I've tried extending to the other lines. I've tried setting the tolerance to 1/2". I've checked that the lines are snapped to endpoints and meet cleanly.
In testing I've found that sometimes it will find the boundary, and other times it will not even when nothing has changed? Noticing that they have to try multiple times and methods to get C3D 2011 to hatch correctly?
The attached file shows the different results (boundaries extracted from successful hatches) that I'm seeing, and sometimes can't find a boundary at all, sometimes it does. Seems to get different results when I regent and at different zooms (not sure if that's the correct terminology?).
How to convert a 3D Polyline contour to Polyline contour.
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Windows 7-64
8GB RAM
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013
I want to dimension along a curvy polyline. I don't want to station it like a centerline. It is for pavement marking dimensions in a curvy road and I want to show the total length of turn lane lines while they go through an s-surve. I could draw the dimensions manually and have in the past. For the contractor, I would simply station and offset it, but it makes it easier for the reviewer to see total turn lane, taper and lane shift lengths, rather than having to calculate them from station and offset callouts.
LT, C3D 2005 - 2014
XP, Vista, 7
Recently my company has changed the standards to label existing utilities with text right above the utilitie lines without leaders. I would like to do automate this process somehow using attributes or something similar to that. I have attached a screen shot of how I would like it to look. The objective is to speed up the labeling process.
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ed AsEditor = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Editor()
Dim mydoc AsDocument = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument
Dim mydb AsDatabase= mydoc.Database
Dim mytrans AsTransaction = mydb.TransactionManager.StartTransaction
Dim mycivil As CivilDocument= Autodesk.Civil.ApplicationServices.CivilApplication.ActiveDocument
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I have a point cloud that i want to snap a boundry around its outer limit. Is there some way to do this automaticly? I tried creating a surface and using the maximum triangle length to get a good boundry. For some reason i loose a lot of pionts at the edges with this boundry. I have removed points that represents water so i have a part in the midddle that i want a boundry around.
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i know how to set all the targets but this link seems to be a fixed length.
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How do you label a polyline with a Z elevation that is not part of a surface? want to label the contours, but they are not part of a surface.
2013 Civil 3D.
Any way to create a polyline linetype that simulates a solid dashed with outer lines (drainage line)?
I could sort of do it with the multiline feature but not what we want. using 2011 civil3D
How i turn a 3D Polyline into an Alignment so i can apply an assembly to it and create a RXL?
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Started freezing when selecting a layout tab. Other programs respond but not C3D. Seems to be this one drawing - pretty simple, about 1000 pnts, and a surface so far. When I select the layout tab it switches and I see a few contours but C3D does not respond. First time I have exp this.
Civil 3D 2013 SP 1, 64 bit
Dell Precision T5600, 16 GB
Win 7 Professional 64 bit
Intel Xeon @ 2.0 GHz
NVIDIA Quadro 4000
