AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 Service Pack 2 Readme
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® AutoCAD
®
Civil 3D
® 2015 Service Pack 2 Readme
Thank you for downloading Autodesk® AutoCAD®
Civil 3D® 2015 Service Pack
2.
This readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and
use of this service pack. It is strongly recommended that you read this entire
document before you apply this service pack to your product. Autodesk®
AutoCAD® Civil 3D®
2015 Service Pack 2 also includes the following updates:
Because Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D is built on Autodesk AutoCAD and Autodesk
AutoCAD Map 3D, it is recommended that you also review the AutoCAD and AutoCAD
Map 3D readme files. For reference, you should save these documents to your
hard drive or print a copy.
Contents
You can apply this service pack to the following Autodesk products running on all
supported operating systems and languages. Be sure to install the correct
service pack for your software.
You can also use Autodesk Application Manager to install the Live Update Maintenance Patches, which will automatically show the correct Hotfix or Service Pack for your product.
64-bit Product |
Service Pack |
Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 |
C3D2015_x64_SP2.0.exe |
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The following issues have been resolved in Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015
Service Pack 2:
Alignments and Profiles
- An issue has been resolved where opening an AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 drawing
in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 or AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 caused profiles to shift
unexpectedly.
- An issue has been resolved where opening a drawing that contains corrupted
profile views caused the application to close unexpectedly.
- An issue has been resolved where horizontal grid lines in profile views
were extended into the axis offset.
- An issue has been resolved where a fixed parabolic vertical curve was lost
when exported to LandXML and then imported back into AutoCAD Civil 3D.
- An issue has been resolved where station/elevation values in an Autodesk®
InfraWorks profile were not converted from feet to meters when importing an
imperial IMX file into a metric AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing.
- An issue has been resolved where the Autodesk® Civil Engineering Data Translator
did not include certain profile layout configurations when exporting drawings
to files that can be used in Bentley® GEOPAK® or Bentley® InRoads®.
- An issue has been resolved where the Export Civil 3D Drawing command would
export alignments as lines and arcs instead of polylines when exporting to
a DGN file.
- An issue has been resolved where unexpected solid objects were projected
to a section view.
- An issue has been resolved where a projected solid extended above or below
section views and profile views.
- An issue has been resolved where full superelevation critical point labels
were not drawn in certain situations.
- An issue has been resolved where the Export LandXML command output incorrect
station equations for alignments that included more than three station equations.
- An issue has been resolved where the Alignment.EndingStation API property
returned raw stations when there were station equations in the alignment.
- An issue has been resolved where station equations could not be added to
end of an alignment.
- An issue has been resolved where a profile may be missing when a drawing
is exported to GEOPAK using the Autodesk Civil Engineering Data Translator.
- The AutoCAD Civil 3D API has been extended to enable superelevation data
to be imported from an external file.
Corridor Modeling
- An issue has been resolved where the Swept Solids option in the Extract
Corridor Solids command only included links and did not include shapes.
- An issue has been resolved with the search path of the subassembly codes
file.
- An issue has been resolved where the Extract Corridor Solids command did
not include the correct corridor shape code names as part of the layer names
for the solids.
- An issue has been resolved where corridor feature lines were not using the
code set styles assigned to the corridor.
- An issue has been resolved where the material refill factor value in the
Edit Material List dialog box was blank and would not preserve an assigned
value.
Feature Lines, Parcels, and Sites
- An issue has been resolved where feature lines and their site would disappear
when moved to a different site in drawings created from acad.dwt.
- An issue has been resolved where using the Insert Intermediate Grade Break
Points option in the Elevations From Surface command would result in errors
in the drawing.
- An issue has been resolved where invalid characters were added to feature
line and alignment names in certain cases.
- An issue has been resolved where the Export Civil 3D Drawing command would
export corridor feature lines as lines instead of polylines when exporting
to a DGN file.
- An issue has been resolved where copying a parcel to another site would
delete the source site in drawings created from acad.dwt.
- An issue has been resolved with crow's feet in parcel labels when a parcel
intersects itself.
Miscellaneous
- An issue has been resolved where north arrows were not adjusting to north
if sheets were created in the current drawing with the Create Sheets command.
- An issue has been resolved where layers created from styles did not include
the definitions for transparency and plot style.
- An issue has been resolved where labels for data-referenced surfaces were
not appearing when drawings were opened.
- An issue has been resolved where Cyrillic characters were not accepted when
entering path information for the AutoCAD Support File Search Path.
- An issue has been resolved when attempting to connect to WMS using the AutoCAD
Map 3D Connect command.
- An issue has been resolved where users may not have been able to export
a drawing to DGN using the Export Civil 3D Drawing command when MicroStation®
was installed.
- An issue has been resolved where note labels could not be copied from one
drawing to another.
- An issue has been resolved where descriptions defined for Toolbox items
were being displayed as tooltips for Toolbox items.
- An issue has been resolved where referenced drawings that contained hatches
were plotting differently than the source drawings.
Pipe Networks and Pressure Networks
- An issue has been resolved where the Break Pipe command for pressure pipes
may not have worked as expected.
- An issue has been resolved where connecting a pipe to an existing circular
structure may have reset the structure size to the smallest size in its family.
- An issue has been resolved where structures with 0' (0m) sump depth may
have been drawn incorrectly in profile view.
- An issue has been resolved where an Optional Property for a pipe or structure
was not retained.
- An issue has been resolved with the performance of opening drawings in certain
cases where the drawings included data-referenced pipe networks.
- An issue has been resolved where using the Select command from the Pipes
or Structures collections in the Prospector tree did not select the pipes
and structures in the drawing.
- An issue has been resolved where materials could not be selected from the
drop-down list when using specific parts lists.
- An issue has been resolved where only two materials could be added into
the drop-down list when adding parts to a part list in a metric drawing.
Points, Surfaces, and Survey
Vault
- An issue has been resolved where an unexpected error would occur when checking
in a drawing using Autodesk® Vault 2015 R2 Server.
- An issue has been resolved where revisions of xrefs were not managed correctly
when using Autodesk Vault.
- An issue has been resolved with Autodesk Vault performance when opening
a sheet set within AutoCAD Civil 3D in cases where multiple projects are displayed
in the Prospector tree.
Water Analysis
- An issue has been resolved where the graphic plot for an inlet section in
Hydraflow Storm Sewers listed the units for inlet depth incorrectly.
- An issue has been resolved where junction loss was not properly computed
in Hydraflow Storm Sewers.
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As you prepare to install this service pack, keep the following in mind:
Back Up Custom Files
It is recommended that you back up all custom CUIX, MNR, and MNL files before you apply this service pack.
Administrative Privileges
During installation or uninstallation, you may be
prompted for the original installation media or a network image. In order to apply this service pack, you must have privileges to install and uninstall products.
Network Deployment
Administrators can deploy this service pack
over a network using the Deployment Wizard.
Close the Application
When you are installing this service pack, a prompt with options to "Automatically
close applications and attempt to restart them after setup is complete" or
"Ignore" may be displayed. It is required that you close Autodesk®
AutoCAD® Civil 3D®
2015 before proceeding with the installation of Autodesk®
AutoCAD® Civil 3D®
2015 Service Pack 2.
Reboot
After you install, it is recommended to reboot your system even if not prompted.
About Your Product
After you install, product information displays in the About dialog box.
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Apply This Service Pack to a Stand-Alone Installation
Follow these instructions to install this service pack on a single
computer.
- Download the service pack and save it to any folder.
- Close all running Autodesk applications.
- Insert the product media (for example, the Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D installation disc) or make sure the installation source files are available.
- Find the folder where you saved the service pack and double-click the
executable (EXE) file.
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Apply This Service Pack Through a Local Network
Follow these instructions to install this Service Pack on multiple computers using your local network.
- Download this Service Pack and save it to any shared folder on your local network.
- Find the shared folder where you saved the Service Pack, and double-click the executable (EXE) file.
Note: Installation through your local network using the CAD Manager Control Utility is not supported for this Service Pack.
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Apply This Service Pack to a Network Administrative Image
The following method of distributing Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 Service
Pack 2 applies only to administrative images created with the Autodesk AutoCAD
Civil 3D 2015 Network Installation wizard. After you complete this procedure,
any new deployments of Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 will have the update applied
to them automatically. For complete information on updating a Network Administrative
Image please see the Autodesk
Network Administrator's Guide.
To apply Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 Service Pack 2 to an existing Autodesk
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 administrative image:
- On the workstation where you initially created the Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 deployment, open the Tools folder and double-click the Create and Modify a Deployment shortcut icon.
- On the Create Deployment > Configure page under Modification Options, select Create a New Deployment Using an Existing Deployment as a Template.
- Specify a new name for the deployment, review and make any other changes, then click Next.
- On the Create Deployment > License Agreement page, review the agreement and click Next.
- On the Create Deployment > Product Information page, review the license information and click Next.
- On the Create Deployment > <Deployment Name> page, click on Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 in the product list to open the Configure options.
- Under Service Packs, select Include Service Pack 2 from Autodesk.com and
click Download.
- Select the option to append the service pack(s) to the deployment.
- Review and make any other changes and then click Create. Now any new deployments of Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 will have the service pack applied to them automatically.
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Uninstall This Service Pack
Due to an issue with the Microsoft® Windows®
operating system, the uninstall process may take longer than expected. For example,
you may wait for several hours before the service pack is uninstalled. It is
recommended to have the original installation source files for the uninstall
to be successful. If the source files are unavailable, installing the following
Microsoft hotfix prior to uninstalling the service pack will prevent the delay:
The removal of an update takes longer than expected in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2
Follow these instructions to uninstall this service pack on a single
computer.
- Insert the product media (for example, the Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D installation disc) or make sure the installation source files are available.
- In Windows Control Panel > Uninstall a Program, select View Installed Updates.
- Under the Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 heading, right-click on Autodesk
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 SP2 and choose Uninstall.
It is not possible to uninstall the service pack if the installation source
is a network administrative image with service pack 2 merged.
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