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    darrin.good
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    Registered: ‎04-11-2011

    Upgrade to Civil 3D 2012, or Civil 3D 2013

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    02-14-2013 10:21 AM

    I am currently running Civil 3D 2011, and I am considering upgrading.  I would like to upgrade to Civil 3D 2013 since the first service pack has been released, but are there any reasons to upgrade to Civil 3D 2012 instead?

     

    Are there still major issues with Civil 3D 2013?

     

    I am on a subscription so there are no issues there.

     

    I am Running Windows 7-Pro – 64 bit.

     

    I have 8 Gb of Ram, and have a NVIDIA Quadro-600 video card.

     

    Thanks

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    Registered: ‎07-09-2003

    Re: Upgrade to Civil 3D 2012, or Civil 3D 2013

    02-14-2013 11:28 AM in reply to: darrin.good

    There are issues with every version.  I'd go with 2013.

    Matt Kolberg
    Cansel - Autodesk Division
    http://www.cansel.ca/
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    Registered: ‎05-21-2008

    Re: Upgrade to Civil 3D 2012, or Civil 3D 2013

    02-14-2013 11:48 AM in reply to: darrin.good

    I'm still on 2011, so can't really advise.  But if you outline what you use the software for, what parts you spend most time in, then someone may advise if 2012 or 2013 is more or less buggy in that area.

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    darrin.good
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    Registered: ‎04-11-2011

    Re: Upgrade to Civil 3D 2012, or Civil 3D 2013

    02-14-2013 12:25 PM in reply to: darrin.good

    I mostly work with storm drainage project.  Surfaces, Alignments, Corridors, pipes, profiles, cross sections…

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    neilyj
    Posts: 2,689
    Registered: ‎08-01-2008

    Re: Upgrade to Civil 3D 2012, or Civil 3D 2013

    02-14-2013 01:30 PM in reply to: darrin.good
    2013 is less buggy for me than 2012 was but surface transparency is broken in 201
    neilyj
    (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)


    IDSP Premium 2014 (mainly Civil 3D 2014 but also 3ds Max Design)
    Win 7 Pro x64, 256Gb SSD, 300Gb 15,000 rpm HDD
    16Gb Ram Intel Xeon CPU E5-1607 0 @ 3.00GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
    NVIDIA Quadro 4000, Dual 27" Monitor, Dell T3600
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    LeafRiders
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    Registered: ‎09-28-2010

    Re: Upgrade to Civil 3D 2012, or Civil 3D 2013

    02-15-2013 01:41 PM in reply to: neilyj

    I'm in 2012 and a little reluctant to move to 2013, there isn't a whole lot different quite honestly. With 2014 around the corner, I would recommend waiting for 2014. Our entire company has already decided that skipping 2013 completely is the case. We will be rolling out 2014 upon it's initial release (April ish), hoping our friends at Autodesk have spent some time cleaning up all the bugs that are associated to the recent add-ons over the last couple years. Not a fan of seeing things broken that worked perfectly fine in a previous version.

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