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Issues with LiDar not showing up in Civil 3D

When working with LiDar, all of a sudden the LiDar disappears or when you close the drawing and open it back up the LiDar is not showing. Make sure that you have your LiDar surface turned on, if it’s turned on then you might try changing the Level of Detail by following the steps below: Goto …

Customized workspace/ribbon won’t save

If a user makes changes to the Ribbon or to Workspaces those changes are not being saved after quitting out of Civil 3D and relaunching the software. Solution: The user makes the CUI ribbon or workspace changes that they want in Civil 3D and then saves those changes. Leave Civil 3D running. In Windows Explorer …

Windows 10 Security Message

Issue: A File Loading Security Concern message is displayed when launching Civil 3D 2016 on a Windows 10 computer. Even though the user checkmarks Always load this application the dialog box continues to show up when launching Civil 3D 2016 at future times. Checkmark Always load this application and click Load so that the feature will be …

Points to Profile

For as vast and dynamic of a program as Civil 3D is, one would hope that developers have included a tool allowing users to manually enter and plot field survey points in a profile or cross-section view. Unfortunately, there is no such tool available in the default installation. But take heart – if you have …

Overriding CTB Plot Styles

Have you found that polylines, text or other objects always tend to print in black or gray? It may seem that no matter how many times you change the properties, the color never seems to take hold. For those of you who prefer to add a bit of color into your Civil 3D drawings, this post …

Turning off preview of all annotation scales

When you select an annotative object and all the annotation scales are displayed, to turn this off: Type in the command line , selectionannodisplay Change the value to <0>, to return back to the preview display set the variable to <1>  

Making the map visible in Paper Space

In order to have the map viewed in Paper Space, you must select Capture Area. Place the image you captured on the 1-Images layer.

NRCS ctb file

When using the NRCS BWGray.ctb file, if you want to have the logo show up in color you must follow these steps: Goto the plot style table Click the wrench to edit the colors Select color 106 and change it to object color Select color 162 and change it to object color

Windows 10

When you get updated to Windows 10 – here are a couple things that you need to keep in mind: NRCS customization – You will have to wait until an update to Civil 3D comes through the software center. This usually happens within a few days. Bing Maps – there will be a Hotfix to allow you …