Feature line behavior/problems Civil 3d 2016 SP 2

[b.stark]

I am hoping someone at Autodesk will look at this......

Feature lines that are assigned to a site will lose all elevation points on the feature line upon a drawing audit. Feature lines not assigned to a site will not lose those elevation points. I have tested this on a few drawings now and they have all reacted in this manner..... PLEASE FIX THIS.

I think this may have inadvertently been caused by trying to fix a problem as noted in the service pack release notes:

• An issue has been resolved where extra vertices's were created on some feature lines which impacted the ability to create grading projections from those feature lines. To resolve this issue, run the AUDIT command in any affected drawings after installing the service pack.

[sboon]

It is not possible to create a feature line without assigning it to a site.  If feature lines are dropping elevation points after an audit I usually find that the site is corrupted and must be deleted.

Try moving all of your feature lines to a new site, delete the old one and then run the audit.

Steve
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[b.stark]

It actually is possible to do this with the latest service pack.

[Jay_B]

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@b.stark wrote:

I am hoping someone at Autodesk will look at this......

..... PLEASE FIX THIS.

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I would file a support request to report the issue.

The more people that report an issue, the more likely it becomes a priority.

[b.stark]

I would be happy to do so if I could find how to do that quickly.......

[sboon]

TIL something new...

I can confirm this error, although mine is slightly different than yours.  I started a new drawing, created two feature lines, and moved one of them to a new Site.  Auditing produced no errors.  I then added three elevation points to each of the two FL's and audited again.  This produced three errors.  The siteless FL was not affected, but for the one on a site the elevation grips disappeared.  If I open the elevation editor for this FL there are still elevation points listed, but as soon as I make any edits to the FL those elevation points disappear.

Steve
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[tcorey]

I am getting the same result as Joe, just the Feature Line that is in a Site has the problem. The inserted elevation points still show up in the Elevation Editor, but their grips don't show on the screen. Once I modify the feature line, the inserted elevation points don't even show up in the Elevation Editor.

Sigh....

[Jay_B]

You can file a support case through your organizations Subscription Account.

Ask whoever manges the Autodesk products, they should be aware of it & be able to help.

[b.stark]

That is exactly the same stuff that I am seeing.

Thank you Jay, I will see that this issue gets submitted.

[Anonymous]

Hopefully this has been logged.  We posted it a couple of days after the SP.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-civil-3d-general/2016-sp2-and-feature-lines/m-p/5950409/highli...

This is certainly not one expects from a service pack.  I don't need a new feature that breaks things.  

As far as I know the only action so far is a change to the Readme to note that they have added siteless feature lines.  Why not another addition to the Readme that says "another new is feature is that we have disabled elevation points" Oh and "we decided to default all your feature lines to siteless unless you want to spend the hours changing your templates and all of your active drawings."

Not at all happy with this one.  Didn't ask for it, and wouldn't expect it in a Service pack.  Log away until this gets fixed!!!

You can uninstall the SP with Windows, which we promptly did.

Autodesk, the fix certainly isn't deafult to "siteless"  Read your own Readme.  I can't move them to a site?!?  And that is what my default is set to?!?  Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks,

Conan Witzel

Smoking BOXX Apexx 2

Civil 3d 2016 SP1

[Timothy_Sean_Hulbert]

Here is the download for the official release of this Hot Fix.

Civil 3D 2016 SP 2 - Feature Line errors and issues

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-civil-3d/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticl...

[Anonymous]

This has resurfaced in 2018.  I had feature lines in a "grading site" and when I audited the drawing, all feature lines spiked to zero elevation keeping only some at original elevation.  Read this thread and tried moving them to a no site and it fixed it.  I have been creating corridor base lines from feature but don't know if this has anything to do with it.   Don't know if Autodesk is aware of this but it seems like it would the the same fix as in the 2016 issue.

Gerry Alvarez

Autocad Civil 3D 2018.2 Update