Civil 3D 2023.2 Update is Available!

[TimYarris]

I’m very happy to announce the release of Civil 3D 2023.2 Update! This is a significant update with many enhancements that are direct responses to customer requests. Highlights include:

• Better overall performance
• More efficient handling of Civil 3D object labels (which also contributes to better performance)
• Workflows to create reusable corridor transitions
• Improved editing, versioning, and standardization of custom subassemblies
• Connection of pressure pipes to gravity network structures

Please see the release notes for detailed information about what's new and issues that have been addressed.

This video is a great summary of some of the key enhancements in Civil 3D 2023.2 Update.

[TimYarris]

Thanks for the continued feedback, everyone. I'm researching the issues you reported with Desktop App and LabelReverseBearing. I'll report back with my findings.

[Jeremy.Ma]

Hi @Cadguru42 ,

Is it a special case for Civil 3D 2023.2? Have you seen Civil 3D 2023.1 or other updates on Autodesk Desktop app before?

Could you try to restart Autodesk Desktop App with following steps?

1. Close Autodek Desktop App

2. Open Windows Task Manager, go to Services tab

3. Stop service - "AdAppMgrSvc"

3. Delete folder "C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\SDS"

4. Start Autodesk Desktop App again

[Jeremy.Ma]

Please ignore last message, I didn't see the 2nd page of this thread.
It seems someone already posted such message.

[michael.perryDM5CX]

So long as they have so many issues showing up I am not going to put the amount of time and and take a chance I'm going to run up with another issue our department is the survey department and it's very straightforward we work on anything that has to do with survey and if there's anything that interferes with those functions then I am going to eliminate the issues and that's what I've done by just having the stock C3D 3D 2023 with no updates and I'm back to doing my job. I just want the software to work the way it's supposed to without us taking time to debug the software. 

[neilyj666]

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@michael.perryDM5CX wrote:

I just want the software to work the way it's supposed to without us taking time to debug the software. 

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I've been waiting in anticipation for this to happen with every new version since I first got Civil 3D at the 2011 release....and every time it has failed in some way...typically functionality that worked flawlessly is broken and new things fail to live up to expectations...😣

[raaker]

I'm still having problems with pipe network labels disappearing even after adjusting settings to show labels

[freeziepop2018]

I'm having the same label issues within Viewports from my pipe networks (both pressure and gravity networks).  The labels display when zoomed out, but when you zoom in they disappear.  I was hoping that they would at least print even if they don't display, but they do not.  I only hope that people aren't submitting final plans after this update without noticing the sporadic label disappearing issues. 

[FrankHuang]

@freeziepop2018 could you please help to record a video or screencast for us?  This will help us to reproduce the issue. 

Thanks,

Frank Huang

Autodesk Infrastructure Product Owner

[brandonplummer]

In the image attached you can see a few civil3d label types/styles and when I pan the viewport, with the update installed, the labels disappear once the "source" point is far enough away from the viewport. I uninstalled the update and this same drawing works fine. 

[raaker]

I've attached screen shots of what my sheets look like when I open them (the label's don't always disappear) and what it looks like after I regen all. The pipe & structure labels do not appear, but after regenerating they show back up. I've had quite a few instances where I ended up labeling a structure or pipe twice because it did not show up when I opened the sheet, but when I go to it later it has 2 labels.

[chuskey2F8VZ]

I'm having issues with pipe labels being reversed. This label used to point the other direction. It still does point the correct direction when opened in an older version of Civil 3D. 2023.2 broke it. I've yet to find a way to reverse it. Not all labels are backwards, just some, so I can't simply flip everything. Relevant pipe settings have been triple-checked (pipe flow direction start to end, start structure is DI, start invert is higher than end invert), the pipe is fine. It's the label.

[FrankHuang]

@chuskey2F8VZ , Tried to reproduce this issue and failed.

It will be helpful if you can share the drawing so that we can take a closer look. 

I created a secure link that you can upload the drawings and viewed by me only.  Here comes the link: Labels

Thanks,

Frank Huang

Autodesk Infrastructure Product Owner

[FrankHuang]

@raaker 

Tried to reproduce this issue and failed.

It will be helpful if you can share the drawing so that we can take a closer look. 

I created a secure link that you can upload the drawings and viewed by me only.  Here comes the link: Labels

[FrankHuang]

@freeziepop2018 I can reproduce this issue in model space. logged in and ask the team to fix as soon as possible. 

[FrankHuang]

@jchandler It will be helpful if you can share the drawing so that we can take a closer look. 

I created a secure link that you can upload the drawings and viewed by me only.  Here comes the link: Labels

[freeziepop2018]

Frank,

I've uploaded one of the projects that I've experienced the issue (it has happened on multiple).  In the "9290.07 - Green Alley - Utilities.dwg", you'll see in paper space, I've got viewports that are only to show structure labels.  I think what might be part of the issue is that I pull all my structure labels off to the side in model space and lock them in place in a list type format.  The labels that are CLOSE to the structures show up in viewports, but the labels that are pulled off to the side in the list disappear once you zoom in (they show up when you zoom back out, but that isn't helpful to me).

[jchandler]

@FrankHuangI've uploaded one our working files to the above link for you to look at. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Also please note that the dwg that I provided has labels for both pipes and a regular profile alignment. The labels not appearing are identical for both of these instances.

[raaker]

The problems I'm having are also in viewports in my sheet layouts. When I go to model all the labels are there. I'm also having a problem now where my pipes are disappearing out of my profiles. It's weird because its not all of them its just 3 or 4 at a time, but it's getting annoying having to redraw the pipes into the profiles and label them again. I've tried to promote the data shortcut, so I hope that helps. I wanted to avoid that because I have other drawings that reference the same pipe network.dwg so now I'll have to make sure changes get updated in both drawings.

[FrankHuang]

@freeziepop2018 @brandonplummer Reviewed your drawing. In this case, suggest you to turn off viewport optimization by typing AeccViewportOpt off. the system variable is to control Hides or displays labels outside of current view, and is for paperspace only.  The benefit of this command is for performance. we can switch from model space to paperspace quickly.

Find more details here: 

https://help.autodesk.com/view//CIV3D/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-6C4A121C-F9D8-49C2-BCDF-73EEEC103ACE

Also we have made a fix on latest build. whether you turn it on or not, during plotting, we will plot all labels. 

Hope this helps.

Thank you very much for the support.

Thanks

Frank Huang

Autodesk Infrastructure Product Owner

[FrankHuang]

@chuskey2F8VZ I can reproduce it. will pass it along to related team to take a look. 

Thanks for your support. 

Thanks

Frank Huang

Autodesk Infrastructure Product Owner