Being Civil

Geotechnical Module Error Message

After reading Jack's blog post regarding the free training for this new tool, you might be inclined to go download it from Subscription Center and give it a try. After installing you may get this error message or something similar:

"Could not load file or assembly System.Data.SqlServerCE version 4.0.0.0"

This is typically due to the fact that the prerequisite Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 was not installed. This is listed right below the actual download of the module on Subscription Center under Civil 3D 2013 Productivity Tools. Please be sure you have this downloaded and installed prior to running the Module and everything should perform as expected.

Windows 8 Support and Infrastructure Products

I know some of you have been asking about Windows 8 support for Civil 3D and the rest of the Infrastructure products. Just released is the current list of support Autodesk products on the new Windows 8 platform. At this time none of the Infrastructure products (Map 3D, Civil 3D, Infrastructure Modeler, etc.) are included in this list. The only one that is supported from the Infrastructure Design Suite at this time is 3DS Max Design.

Please follow this link to the technical solution for more information: http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS19048377 

This technical solution will be updated as new Windows 8 compatibility information becomes available.

We came across one interesting post from our friends at Up and Ready. I gladly suggest that you also take a look for some very informative posts on that blog. In any case, this post I think may be interesting for our Map 3D and Civil 3D users so I am sharing it with you.

AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 & Civil 2012: Licensing with ESRI ArcGIS

Enjoy!

ASPX file failed to run at URL: httpr://localhost:80/TestASP/testASPNet.aspx

When installing Vault some of you may have seen this error message during Pre-check. I certainly have. My co-worker from Data management team and a fellow blogger, Andy Spivey pointed me to this article and also showed me how to do it. So I am sharing it with you. The message is:

“ASPX file failed to run at URL: httpr://localhost:80/TestASP/testASPNet.aspx”.

If you looked throughout our knowledge base you may have stumbled upon thisTechnical Solution which can give some clues. 

Until this message is resolved your installation is stopped. The link may point to a help article suggesting making sure to open ports and have IIS. If you tried all that and still got the same failure during pre-check then you are about to resolve it by continue reading this article.

Add Reset User Settings in Civil 3D 2013

As many of you may have already known, Almas wrote this great post for Civil 3D 2012 which streamlines the process to reset your user settings when troubleshooting user specific issues. To simplify this for the new release I am posting the updated steps and paths for 2013:

1. Go into C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013
2. Right-click in it and chose New and Shortcut
3. In the next dialog paste following text (including quotes) "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013\AdMigrator.exe" /reset and click Next
4. Then type Reset User Settings (or anything you wish) for a name of this shortcut and hit Finish
5. Now go to Start>All Programs>Autodesk>AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 and note that Reset User Settings is listed
6. Now go ahead and run it if you wish

You can even create a little desktop icon like I did, which makes it even more accessible as I often run this utility to bring me back to stock settings.

Thanks again to Almas for the great original post!

 

Infrastructure Modeler and XP

For those that read the README (that should be everyone!), you may have noticed that Infrastructure Modeler is not supported on XP, and won't install if you try.

 

For those of you installing AIM from the Building Design Suite (but not Infrastructure) you may find that deploying the entire suite to XP fails.  This is due to having AIM in the list of products selected for install.  For a solution, please go to usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS19352282.

Starting AutoCAD and Civil 3D from Same Suite - Takes Suite's Licenses.

I’ve been meaning to say a word about this for a while but just my recent piling tasks pushed me further and further from it. Now, after I got two back to back phone calls with the same question I though it’s time to blog about it. Here is the deal.

Some customers have Infrastructure Design Suites (IDS) installed with appropriate license and also Civil 3D and AutoCAD with its own licenses.

For instance: Your company has 2 licenses for IDS and 1 for each AutoCAD and Civil 3D (so total of 4 licenses for AutoCAD or Civil 3D). If you launch Civil 3D or AutoCAD on two machines it will grab 2 IDS licenses. But if the third machine tries to open Civil 3D or AutoCAD it may get a message stating that there are no licenses available.

 So the answer to this lies in the following link. If you have similar environment you must install Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite Network License Hotfix.

“…This hotfix addresses a possible issue with AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 pulling the incorrect license at launch.  This hotfix should be applied to all machines that have AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 installed, regardless of whether it was installed as part of a suite or as a point products (not part of a suite)…”

Keep coming back for more! 

 

Support for Windows Vista

We have been planning to spread the world about this but things slipped out of radar and we didn't. Autodesk have decided to formally stop supporting Windows Vista in 2012. It will still linger for a litle bit more and if you would like to know more about it as well as to get familiar with reasons behind it please see a following link:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=18424371