Contours Not Displaying???

If you find that your Contours won't display, particularly when trying to use contours at a fairly close interval, you may need to check that your 'Level of Detail' setting is not turned on.

Add a New Size to a Pipe or Crossing Service

So, you want to add a new Pipe or Crossing Service to your design, but can't find the size that you want? 
For example, you may wish to create a custom PVC pipe size for a Crossing Service. This can be achieved using Civil 3D's Part Builder. Here's how to do it...

Matching Corridor Region Parameters...

At times, you may want to match the Properties of one Corridor Region with another. This may include Assembly, Target or Frequency information. This can be particularly useful if you have lost the information and don't want to spend time manually selecting all of your targets again...!

The can be done using the 'Match Parameters' command...

Using Shift to Select/Deselect Objects doesn't work

If using the Shift key to Select/Deselect Objects for editing is not working for you...

Type MAPIOPTIONS in the Command Line, go to the 'General' Tab and ensure that the 'Shift+Left Click Image Select' option is Unchecked.

For more info see the following Autodesk Discussion Forum Post...

VISRETAIN - Retain changes to Xref layers

When working with Xrefs you may find that after a reload or open, any Xref dependent layers that you have turned off or frozen have turned back on again... This is controlled by the VISRETAIN system variable.

Civil 3D 2014 Service Pack 1 is out!

Civil 3D 2014 Service Pack 1 is now out...!

The good news! The Section Editor issue has finally been resolved!  
Please take a look at the Readme to see what else has been fixed.

Cheers.
Ross.

Update User Profile & Customised User Interface

When re-installing Civil 3D or upgrading to a new version of Civil 3D you will need to reload your User Profile (.arg) and Customised User Interface file (.cuix). Follow the steps outlined below to update...

Multiple Sheet PDF Publishing - Omit Layer Information

When Publishing Multiple Sheet PDF Sets, simply selecting 'Dont Include' in the 'Layer information' section of the 'Publish Options...' will not work. This is a known issue since at least 2010 and is still not working correctly in 2014.

Adding a Custom Property Field for Point Tables... (User-Defined Property Classifications for Points)

There may be times where you want to provide additional information for Points over and above the fields already existing within Civil 3D. This can be achieved by using the User-Defined Property Classifications and can be accessed through the Point Settings Tab in the Toolspace. 
I would like to acknowledge Shane O'Rorke from CSS for showing me this feature of Civil 3D.

Testing testing 1,2,3...

My first blog post...

Just thought I'd give this a go to see whether I can create a collection of Civil 3D related Hints, Tips, Commands and of course, Workarounds!

Until now I have had no central location to store these tidbits of information. If things go well, this blog will serve as a place for our design staff to access and use the information they need to perform their roles more efficiently and maybe learn a thing or two along the way...

Ross.