NAVBAR Showing on Plots...?

If you are finding that your plots have a small rectangular stamp that appears at random locations, take a closer look and you may find that it is actually an image of the NAVBAR...!

This appears to be a known issue with Civil 3D.

Show Triangulation Between Two Pasted Surfaces...

Excerpt from the Best Practices guide...

Service Pack 2 Available for Civil 3D 2014

Service Pack 2 is now available for Civil 3D 2014

Hotfix for ViewCube Printing Issue - Civil3D 2014 SP1

If you are having issues where the ViewCube will randomly appear on printed PDF's, follow the link below for a Hotfix that will address the issue from Autodesk.

ViewCube Hotfix (2014 SP1)

Note: This is intended to address issues with 2014 versions of the Software running Service Pack 1.

Thanks.

Batch Renaming of Layers

If you want to change a group of Layer Names at one time, the 'RENAME' command may solve your problem...

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.