![]() As obedient children in the Civil 3D object model Profiles are again a collector - another bucket of buckets. ![]() In Civil 3D Profiles are always children of Alignment parents. Time to get unstuck? This is a post about the power of backwards linear thinking. If you miss that idea and/or method and practice, AutoCAD Civil 3D can be more painful. ![]() Certainly part of DCM functionality is Annotative what with View Frames and what not. Alignments are indeed a Management interface tool allowing us lots of access to the interfaces and tools of managed control. Alignments are a bucket of buckets collector. So if we had more-frequent Service Packs that fixed more things and weren't afraid to add "new" features, and less-frequent "Major version" releases that are so problematic in so many ways, that would be MUCH better for us end-users.We’ve been talking about Alignments in AutoCAD Civil 3D as Design Control Manager (DCM) objects. Couple that with the fact that large companies in particular hate to deploy a new version every year because of the amount of time and effort required, and the "new release every year" upsets many. Then there's the fact that Autodesk still hasn't managed to release back-to-back versions of C3D that are compatible with each other. That means that we can have an incredibly long wait to get some features we want immediately. That means feedback from the 2008 version doesn't get incorporated until the 2010 version. Net result is they already have 2009 planned by the time they release 2008 and start getting feedback. Meanwhile, Autodesk plans the next release at the same time they are releasing their current version. Service packs fail to include fixes and improvements that we desperately need, because they are considered to be "new features". ![]() ![]() Right now there are a bunch of "bad" forces all working together. Instead, if they went by "include new features in service packs if they don't affect the DWG file or entity formats" we'd probably be a lot better off. Things would probably work much better if they didn't have the arbitrary rule of "no new features in a service pack". But we're also not getting them frequently enough. In a way, we're getting releases too frequently. ![]()
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