Civil 3D Splash Screen Replacement

Howdy, welcome to my new AutoCAD blog. To start things off, here’s a little hack for you. The Civil 3D 2008 splash screen reminded me of something else, so I decided to change it. Here’s the procedure:

First, download ResHack: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

Then modify C:\Program Files\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008\acadres.dll with ResHack:
1) remove RCData:414
2) Add new Bitmap resource : 414 : new splash image BMP (link below)
3) replace Bitmap resource 144 with new splash image BMP
4) save

Here’s the original:

and here’s my replacement (Zipped bitmap to use with ResHack). Thanks to MVWPhoto for the photo! If you copy this file somewhere else, please be sure to give him attribution.