Knowing that many people do not read readme file with whom I can totally relate for the most part… But, trust me, I’m getting better. Nice thing about re-designed installation wizard that now you can include Service Pack (Update) from Autodesk.com (if available). That is in my opinion the easiest way to do it. But in case if you for any reason would like to test drive it before installation or if you would like to install it from a local copy of the Update you know you have to create MSP file. This procedure sounds harder than it really is and it's also applicable to older versions of Civil 3D, too. Creating (extracting) MSP file is pretty simple. To read about it click continue reading...
1. From the Autodesk Product Support website, download C3D2010SP2.exe to your local computer. We recommend saving EXE file to the root directory to avoid possible issues due to long file names. C:\C3D2010SP2.exe would be good.
2. On the Start menu (Windows), click Run. (/e switch extracts the Microsoft Patch file (MSP) from executable (EXE)). Enter the following information, and then click OK
<local drive>:\<patch name> /e <local drive>:\<patch name.msp> i.e. C:\C3D2010SP2.exe /e C:\C3D2010SP2.msp
3. This will create patch file in the root directory called C3D2010SP2.msp
4. On the computer where you created the original AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 deployment there is a Tools folder with " Create & modify a deployment" shortcut. Double-click this shortcut.
5. In the Begin Deployment dialog you may select one of the available options depending if you wish to create new deployment or modify the existing ones as well as to create one from template.
6. Go through the several steps of the wizard and when you got to the “Include Service Pack“ screen you should select “Include Service pack(s) from local driver or local network”.
The rest is easy. For more information of this see the excellent post that Justin wrote while ago called “Deployment Basics” that covers in-depth of deployment creation. Enjoy!!!
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