Autocad 3D Civil

[sgryzelak]

Hey Guys,

 

I have a simple question about this program. it was installed to my machine here at work, so I have opened the Tutorial to learn it. The tutorial has template drawings that I can't seem to find within our folder structure. The people who created the install build for our computers have striped out items to make the install smaller. And since this was done by one of our other offices, I can't get the info for the install disks.

All I'm looking for are the template drawings, and they seemed to be called stuff like Intro-1.dwg etc. Does anyone here have them that I could download them from??

 

thanks if you can share,

[Dana W]

Did you check your Files > Template Settings > Drawing template File Locations path in your Options menu? Does C3D have that menu like AutoCAD vanilla?

 

AutoCAD puts the template drawings in a subfolder of C:\users\user\appdata\local\Autodesk\R(version)\Autocad(type)\enu\template.

 

(or something like that)

 

If they are not in there then they probably have been stripped out if the techy dudes used a custom install instead of the full install. Pretty shortsighted of them. Unfortunately, I don't have AutoCAD C3D.

 

Maybe they are available from the AutoDesk sight. That is, If your techy people will let you download stuff.

[sgryzelak]

Dana,

 

Thanks to you pointing out another directory I missed looking in, I scan the whole c:drive. The install put them in c:\program files\autocad civil 3d 2008\help\civil 3d tutorials\drawings.

They are not were they were pointed out in the tutorial. Thanks for the help

 

cheers,

[Dana W]

So, when you click File > New it does not open a dialog box set to the Templates folder?

 

If it does, are the sought after dwt files in there?

[Dana W]

So, when you click File > New it does not open a dialog box set to the Templates folder?

 

If it does, are the sought after dwt files in there?

You must have been typing while I continued typing another question.

 

Did you find them then?

[sgryzelak]

Dana,

 

Yes I found the tutorial files. And yes the seed dwt files were in the correct location, but those are blank files. The files I was looking for were for the tutorial, ones that help you learn the basics.

 

Thanks again.

[Dana W]

Dana,

 

Yes I found the tutorial files. And yes the seed dwt files were in the correct location, but those are blank files. The files I was looking for were for the tutorial, ones that help you learn the basics.

 

Thanks again.

 

Maybe you have to draw them? Dunno. I don't have the same tutorials, so I can't look on my machine.

All my 'seed's are blank too, other than the title block in paperspace.

 

2008? They installed nearly 4 year old software recently?

[sgryzelak]

Yes 2008. We are a large company that has a lot of clients. And for certain clients, we can only use certain levels of software. Besides, not much changes for Autocad from year to year. If autodesk put more time into one release and made it bug free, then spitting out a bug infested version every year, they would be far better off.

[sinc]

Besides, not much changes for Autocad from year to year..

 

That may be true of Autocad, but not of Civil 3D. Each release adds more features, greater stability, and considerably fewer headaches than the one before.

 

I personally don't really consider C3D 2008 to even be ready for production use. C3D 2009 is the first version I would recommend anyone try to use on a real project, and at this point, I wouldn't even want to use that version. Unless you are working closely with another company that is currently using C3D 2010, I'd strongly recommend you go straight to C3D 2011.

 

If you stay on C3D 2008, expect to spend a lot more time banging your head against walls and suppressing desires to shoot your computer with a shotgun.