Civil 3D is used to plan, design, and deliver land development, water, and transportation projects\n"}]},"@type":"Question","name":"Who uses Civil 3D?","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"Civil engineers, civil designers, and other civil infrastructure professionals rely on Civil 3D for better, more innovative project outcomes.\n"],"@type":"Question","name":"Which versions of Civil 3D can I use if I subscribe to the current version?","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"Your Civil 3D subscription gives you access to install and use the 3 previous versions. Available downloads are listed in your Autodesk Account after subscribing. See also\u202fprevious releases available for subscribers.\n"],"@type":"Question","name":"How do I download Civil 3D?","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"Autodesk provides download and install instructions for individuals and administrators. Your available downloads appear in Autodesk Account. 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I can't say with 100% certainty, but don't get stingy with the mobo. in all honesty, i think my PC still does what i need it to cause i bought a above average -> a-bit-under-topofthepops mobo. It is what channels all your data.
What I'd really like to see is Autodesk run some test with Civil 3D and the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and let people know if it's worth the $1000.00 bucks to upgrade and if their programs take advantage of the new chips.
Our workstations at work vary between 16GB and 32GB... My home machine has 64GB. We had a drawing file that had a corrupted surface or something inside it... Our machines at work would fatal error anytime this file was opened. You could never get to the command line without it crashing. I tried everything to open the file at work. Took the file home and it opened just fine on my box with 64GB...
It is probably not worth it. AutoCAD is not (very) multi-threaded. You are better off with the fastest (Mhz wise) Intel processor you can get or overclock. A 4.5ghz i7 7700k or i5 7600k would probably make short work of the paltry 4.0ghz you can get out of a Threadripper (if you are lucky).
One of our Engineers wanted to draw some typical sections. He's not very experienced with CAD so I set him up to open AutoCAD. He wanted a specific border and to plot at an non-OOTB scale. I set up a layout on my machine and saved it as a template. (I'll add it to the default template once the bugs are out). I started with a metric template and added the layout and created the scale, 1:75.
I not so sure that you can just modify your template and make everything meters. I would think you would need to start from a OOTB NCS-Metric Template. I just tried using the OOTB on my 13 install and it appears to be corrupt. I can't set units or zone in drawing settings. within tool space.
I also recall having a tough time trying to get a metric dwg from the imperial install/icon. It was a few years ago but I did not get any conversions to work without using the metric install for metric dwg's.
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Once that was done I started a new drawing from that template, wblocked out everything from the problem drawing and inserted it in the new drawing. Now the scaling and plotting works fine from my computer. I still have to test it on the other Engineer's computer with his profile. But I think it will work. I'll post when I'm sure.
The only problem I ran in to was that when the Layouts came in the scales associated with them were renamed 1:1_1, 1:50_1, 1:75_1, etc in addition to the existing ones from the template. I couldn't delete some of them from the Scale List until I realized that you can't delete a scale that's assigned to a Viewport. I fixed the viewports. Now it's good.
I had to relearn some things that I hadn't had to deal with in years. The most important thing is to NEVER for ANY reason let ANYONE start from ANY drawing that hasn't been inserted in the current valid template.
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