Improving Performance in AutoCAD and Civil 3D

I’m running Civil 3D 2009 on a PC with an Nvidia Quadro 3500 video card. I’ve recently taken a few steps to speed things up. First, I disabled Communications Center, which speeds up start times. Second, I installed the latest Nvidia Drivers. Finally, I installed the Nvidia Powerdraft Drivers. I didn’t do any benchmarking, so [...]

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Okay, that was complicated

I just ran into a giant brick wall trying to update the Civil 2008 Object Enabler for AutoCAD 2008. I first tried to install the latest OE. Not so easy, because it told me that I already had an older version installed and I needed to uninstall it first. Okay, so I go to Windows [...]

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Layer Freeze 2004

A blast from the past I was getting frustrated with the way Layer Freeze in AutoCAD 2008 (and maybe 2007?) handles blocks nested within xrefs. If you have a block which contains entities on layer 0, which is itself on a different layer, and the whole thing is in an xref, and you use 2008 [...]

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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 [...]

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