AutoCAD Civil 3D

[#1]

What is the status on a service pack to address the crashing issues?

It is already mid-November and I recently received our 90-day pre-bill for our next Subscription, yet we do not have a current stable product. 

I am hitting the Audit command just about every other command now and still crashing frequently. Especially on various Corridor operations such as extracting feature lines, etc.. 

I have sent countless feedback retracing my steps for Autodesk and it is getting annoying and tiresome.

Where is the product leadership at Autodesk on this?

[#2]

My guess is that they'll issue a Service Pack to provide Win 8 compatibility which will break some functionality that I rely on (see Drive Command in 2012....that took about 9 months to fix, not even sure if it is working properly as I'm now on 2013)

[#3]

Win 8? That would be inexcusable.

Here are the stated system requirements from Autodesk for C3D 2013. This is the data we have based our company budget decisions on:

[#4]

Win 8 compatibility is inevitable.....never mind though....if Autodesk are to be believed we'll be doing all our designs "in the cloud" via iPads...

[#5]

Those that know, don't say.

Those that say, don't know.

[#6]

Indeed, as Brian stated (yet again) you'll know when we all know...the day it's releaaed.

Why would the addition of Win 8 compatibility be inexcusable? It would be adding additional functionality. Anyway, it's all speculation at this point anyway.

Make sure you have the hotfixes installed in the meantime.

[#7]

To clarify:

It would be inexcusable to leapfrog Win 7 stability, and holdback on releasing a service pack, to focus on Win 8 compatibility.

Get the product stable on Win 7 first. This is how it was sold to us.

[#8]

I have no idea how long it takes to make C3D Win 8 compatible. For argument's sake, let's say it takes a week. From Autodesk's perspective it would not be cost effective to release 2 service packs, the second being a week later. From an administrator perspective, it also would not make sense to have to install 2 service packs so close together.

I doubt it's only a week. If it takes 4 months then I would agree with you, give us SP1 now then SP2 later once the Win 8 stuff has been added.

If this is what the delays is (remember it is complete speculation that Win 8 is being added) then I suspect the timing is somewhere in between.

[#9]

Civil 3D 2013 was released over half a year ago...The service pack for it is WAY late....

No excuses.

[#10]

Actually, there have been 2 hot fixes released. They have many fixes that include stability fixes. They aren't called "Service Packs" but they fix things as the SP's do. The latest was released in late September, so the timing is pretty much right on schedule.