I believed that Justin mentioned this in one of his previous post but I could not find it. In any case in the last 20 minutes I got one phone call and one new case with the same issue. Customers were all happy to finally plug those survey information into Civil 3D and continue working on their project... When all of the sudden, they notice that there is something strange with the way their "Specify Data Source" looked. There was no Browse button, no matter how much they stretched that dialog.
If you ever seen something similar and wanted to know how to fix just click on continue reading.
If you are one of those “lucky ones” to have created your deployment directly from DVDs you may notice that tool palettes are displaying fine but some Civil sub-assemblies and assemblies are missing from the palettes. This appears to be the issue only with deployments created from DVDs but not if Civil 3D 2010 is installed as a stand-alone.
The QAT or "Qwat" - you know what that is, right? Time for User Interface 101; its the Quick Access Toolbar, which we've actually had since 2009. You've seen it in other applications I'll bet - it allows you to have a group of often-used commands at your disposal very quickly. Most people probably just leave it as is, with defaults of file commands and printing, undo/redo. But hey, a lot more is possible here!
Sorry I didn't post earlier this week; I took a couple days off to go skiing with my brother in the Swiss Alps, in the Grindelwald region. Monday at Schilthorn was a bit slushy and wet. My snowboarding brother is faster than me; he often disappeared into the thick fog that rolled in, so I dubbed him "Gorilla in the mist." Tuesday morning looked like more of the same, so we headed around the other side to try our luck at Kleine Scheidegg - 3 inches of new snow, sun popping in and out between the clouds and mist - a great day!
OK already, back to business, I promised you one sneak peak a week, so let's continue to explore the Ribbon:
Hi all, I apologize for the delay, as I had mentioned a couple weeks back, we want to give you some sneak peeks at the 2010 release. Because we wanted to try hosting our videos on You Tube however, it took awhile to get the settings right so you can actually see it fairly well and it's not completely fuzzed out! Enjoy this first look, more to come...
You can view the original on our YouTube channel here, which is a bit bigger.
Update: on our YouTube channel I have also added AutoCAD 2010 videos to the "2010 Preview" playlist. Might be worth subscribing to our YouTube channel if you want to view our wide format videos there!
Sometimes when troubleshooting an issue for a customer is it useful to know what version of Civil 3D the drawing was created in. For all you Windows XP users, this can be discovered in Windows Explorer by setting your file display type to Details, and right clicking on the grey bar and selecting More:
The dialog box displays a wealth of information to be displayed for your files, but in this case, we are only concerned with DWG Creator Name and DWG Creator Version. Check these boxes to display them and click OK to exit. You will now be able to see the information displayed in Windows Explorer. Please keep in mind that if you save an earlier drawing in a newer version, it will update both of these columns.
I thought this was pretty cool when I was shown this, and if you haven’t discovered it yet, I hope you do too!
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