Thank
you for using AutoCAD® Map 3D
2012.
This
Readme contains important information about AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 that may not be
included in the online Help. Because AutoCAD Map 3D is built on AutoCAD, a link
to the readme items about AutoCAD is included in this readme.
Contents
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Join the Customer Involvement Program
·
Country Kits and Country Kit Extensions
·
Feature Limitations and Notes
You
are invited to help guide the direction of Autodesk design software.
If
you participate in the Customer Involvement Program (CIP), specific information
about how you use AutoCAD Map 3D is forwarded to Autodesk. This information
includes what features you use the most, problems that you encounter, and other
information helpful to the future direction of the product.
See
the following links for more information.
·
Learn more about the
Autodesk Customer Involvement Program: http://www.autodesk.com/cip
·
Read the Autodesk
Privacy Statement: http://www.autodesk.com/cipprivacy
When
you join, you will be able to view reports that can help you optimize your use
of AutoCAD Map 3D.
To
turn the CIP on or off
1.
On the InfoCenter toolbar, to the right of the Help button, click
the drop-down arrow.
2.
Click Customer
Involvement Program.
3.
In the Customer
Involvement Program dialog box, select to start or stop participating.
4.
Click OK.
Running AutoCAD Map 3D as AutoCAD
You
can use the MENU command to run AutoCAD Map 3D as AutoCAD.
To
Run AutoCAD Map 3D as AutoCAD:
1.
At the Command line,
enter MENU.
2.
In the Select Customization
File dialog box, select acad.CUIX.
AutoCAD Map 3D Developer Documentation
The
AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 Developer Documentation is not included in the product
installation for this release. Check the Autodesk.com web site for updated
developer documentation.
Industry Model Drawings
When logging into an enterprise industry model
workspace in AutoCAD Map 3D using MAPMAIN privileges, the program may fail and
display the error message “Insufficient privileges for operation on
industry model.”
To resolve this issue
1. In Infrastructure
Administrator, start SQL Sheet.
2. Connect to the MAPSYS user.
3. Execute “Delete from
TB_LICENSE where LICENSE_KEY is null.”
4. Start AutoCAD Map 3D and log
into the enterprise industry model using the MAPSYS user.
5. Restart Map3D and login using
the MAPMAIN user.
You cannot add a feature class based on a
view that does not have an uppercase name. The view will not be listed in the
view list in the Feature class form.
Geographic
Coordinate systems are not supported for Industry models and using them may result in
error messages.
FDO ODBC
You
cannot select “identity” properties whose names contain \, <,
>, ?, ", :, ; ,.
Spatial Indexing
If a
SHP spatial index file (*.idx) becomes corrupted, the extents stored with it might
not be correct. As a result, the layer extents will be clipped and polygons
fills will be defective. To correct this issue, manually
remove the *.idx file. It will be automatically regenerated when the
layer is loaded.
Help Buttons
display unrelated Help Topics
When you select layers for converting mtext
to text layers, the Help button does not display related help. To get help on
this task, from within the Help system search for the Convert MText To Text Layer dialog box.
When you style a text layer, the Help
button in the Style
Annotation Text dialog box incorrectly displays help for the Style Label dialog
box. To get help on this task, from within the Help system search for the Style
Annotation Text dialog box.
Style
and Label Editor
When
creating a theme, it is recommended that you do not specify expressions for
Width/Height value of symbols in the Style and Label Editor, but rather use the
new stylization UI that can be invoked by pressing the ellipses button on the
expression for each rule in the theme.
When
you create a label for a point feature, you can add up to eight separate
symbols. The symbols display in the preview as though they were stacked on top
of each other. However, in your map, the symbols will be clustered around the
point features, without overlapping.
Only the following properties will be retained when converting
feature labels to MText - Content, Size, Position, Rotation and Alignment.
Label stacking is not supported. To show multiple point labels,
assign an offset. You cannot do this for line and polygon labels, because there
are no offset options for those geometries.
Standard styles preserve units as part of
the persistent data saved in a drawing file or in a .layer file. Enhanced Styles
do not preserve units. As a result, converting between enhanced and standard
style can create differences in style parameters. Those differences do not
affect how the layers look in a drawing.
Use the ribbon style options with simple styles
that don’t include compound styles that have both text and graphics.
Stylization
symbols can have fixed or parameterized properties. When AutoCAD Map 3D creates
a symbol from a block, if properties like color and lineweight
are specified as ‘BYLAYER,’ these properties become parameterized
properties of the new symbol. Properties whose values are fixed (i.e. lineweight = 0.3mm) become fixed properties.
When
you load a block symbol for use in a style, the Style dialog box preserves the
current color and lineweight settings for
parameterized properties. For example, if the edge color in the dialog box is
yellow and you load a block symbol with a parameterized color property, the
color in the Style dialog box will remain yellow. If you want to use the evaluated
value instead (the color defined on the block’s layer
– in this case, blue) load a block symbol with a fixed property
value and then immediately load the parameterized block. When you do that, the
block symbol’s color value of blue will take precedence over the current
value (yellow) in the dialog box.
To create a multi-line text expression, use
the parameter ‘\P’ (uppercase P) for enhanced styles and
‘\n’ (lowercase n) for standard styles. The Expression Builder
documentation mentions only the ‘\n’ option. The parameters are
case-sensitive.
Oracle Datastores
When creating an Oracle datastore,
if you use a name that has spaces in it, coordinate systems may be set
incorrectly. Avoid using datastore names with spaces.
Sample
Oracle Dump Files
Sample Oracle dumps were not shipped with
the AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 product but will be released to the Autodesk web site
after the product ships.
Displaying
Help and User Group Information
The offline help system may not display
correctly in certain browsers (such as Safari or Chrome). Use the online help
system if the default browser is not Internet Explorer.
The
User Group button in the Help ribbon will not display the correct page if you
have multiple browsers installed, including Internet Explore. If you run Windows
7, install only Internet Explorer. If you run Windows XP, set Internet Explorer
as your default browser.
Tooltip Videos
Tooltip
videos may not display or function correctly in Windows 7 when text size is set
to medium (125%). Change the text size setting to 100% so tooltip videos
display and function correctly. To reset your text size, go to the Control
Panel, select Appearance and Personalization, and, under the Display options,
select “Make text and other items larger or smaller.” Select the
Smaller - 100% (default) option. Follow the instructions for logging off or
restarting the system.
If
you are unable to change the text size from medium (125%) and you encounter the
video display problem, press “CTRL_ALT_DELETE” to display the Start
Task Manager option. In the Task Manager, under the Applications Tab, look for
any entries that look similar to this example,
(123ee567-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx). Press End Task for those entries.
Updating Your Operating Systems
To prevent installation problems all operating
systems should be updated prior to installing AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 or any of its
components. The .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 update is required on all Windows XP
Professional operating systems. The Start > Windows Update option will
direct you to the needed updates for your operating systems.
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 requires Microsoft
.NET Framework 4.0 prior to completing the installation. For network deployments
it is recommended that you update the client systems with the .NET Framework
4.0 prior to installation. This is a URL to Microsoft’s site to download
and install .NET Framework 4.0.
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 requires
Windows Imaging Component
If the Autodesk Installer prompts you to
install the Microsoft .NET 4.0 Framework, the .NET 4.0
Framework installer may prompt you to first install the Windows Imaging
Component (WIC). This can occur if you do not have the latest Microsoft Windows
updates or service packs. You are most likely to need WIC if you are running
Windows XP SP2 without certain Windows Updates installed. If required, the
Microsoft WIC installers are available at the following locations:
• 32-bit installer
• 64-bit installer
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=f64654ac-6e26-41d9-a90a-0e7783b864ee
Installing AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 using the MSI file
Installing
AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 using the MSI file may result in an invalid installation.
You must use the setup.exe file to install AutoCAD Map 3D 2012.
Automatically Migrating Customized Settings
You
cannot migrate user profiles and CUI files from previous releases of AutoCAD
Map 3D. Workspace information in AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 has been changed from
previous releases of AutoCAD Map 3D.
Deployment Installation on Windows 7
If
you specify "Program install folder" for "Support Content"
installation folders when creating deployment for AutoCAD Map 3D, you must
launch it "As Administrator" after installation. Otherwise, AutoCAD
Map 3D will fail to run.
Configuring Administrative
Images for Standard Stylization
AutoCAD
Map 3D 2012 offers two types of stylization, Standard and Enhanced modes. By
default AutoCAD Map 3D is set to Enhanced mode. To configure network
deployments for Standard stylization mode requires including a file
“MapStyle.arg” in the root folder where the Map 3D executable is
located. The “MapStyle.arg” is an empty text file that can be
created by any text editor such as Notepad. The name of this file is important
and must be “MapStyle.arg”.
Create the file on the server where the administrative image will be
stored. During the configuration of the administrative image in the
“Additional Files” option, browse to the MapStyle.arg file and add
the file to the <Installation Directory>. When AutoCAD Map 3D starts up
it will be in Standard mode. On the Vista and Windows 7 operating systems it
may be necessary to turn off UAC so that files can be copied to restricted
folders prior to installation of deployments.
Deploying Industry Model
Templates
When
you install AutoCAD Map 3D using the default deployment method, industry model
templates are installed in a different folder from the other templates. To make
these templates available from the template folder (when users create a new map
document), move them into the default template folder manually.
Installing Non-English version
of AutoCAD Map 3D 2012
Do
not install a non-English version of AutoCAD Map 3D on an English-language
operating system. The language version of AutoCAD Map 3D must match the
language version of the operating system.
Setting or Refreshing
Profiles
Creating,
resetting, importing, or refreshing profiles can
cause AutoCAD Map 3D to crash because certain folders are no longer found in
the environment path. To recover from this situation, follow these steps:
1. Type
“Options” at the command line.
2. In the Options
dialog box, click the Files tab.
3. Under "Support
File Search Paths," add the FDO directory to the paths listed.
This directory (bin\FDO) is in the root
folder where AutoCAD Map 3D is installed (where acad.exe resides). For example,
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Map 3D 2012\bin\FDO. The directories in the
support file search path can guide you to the installation path.
4. Restart AutoCAD Map
3D.
5. Type
“menu” at the command line.
6. In the "Select
customization file" dialog box, you should see acad.cuix
as the selected menu.
7. Navigate to Map.cuix, menu, select it, and click Open.
You
may want to turn off the grid and change the background color after returning
to the AutoCAD Map 3D workspace.
Storm
and Sanitary Analysis 2012 Installation
Before you install AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 and
Storm and Sanitary Analysis 2012, remove all folders and files from Beta
release versions of Storm and Sanitary Analysis. The folders or files
associated with the Beta versions can cause uninstall issues, and may leave
invalid files behind.
Storm and Sanitary Analysis will not detect
the presence of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 or AutoCAD Map 3D 2012 installations if
they are installed in a directory whose name contains non-ASCII characters.
Should this be the case, Storm and Sanitary Analysis will not install and will
cause the installation of either product to fail.
Viewing the Welcome Screen Videos
If
you cannot run the videos from the Welcome Screen on a 64-bit system, you can
view them from the Getting Started Guide section of the Help. If you have never
used AutoCAD Map 3D before, or have only used AutoCAD, you may find these
introductory videos very useful as initial training.
Unsupported Components on 64-Bit Systems
The
following AutoCAD Map 3D components are not support on a 64-bit system:
·
LDAO
According
to Microsoft, DAO (Data Access Objects) is not supported on 64-bit systems.
Microsoft recommends migrating to ADO.NET.
Data
Access Objects (DAO): DAO provides access to JET (Access) databases. This API
can be used from Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual C++, and scripting
languages. DAO 3.6 is the final version of this technology.
Country
Kits and Country Kit Extensions can be added to your AutoCAD Map 3D
installation. Country kits give you access to country-specific data models,
reports, templates, and more. Download them from www.autodesk.com/map3d-countrykits.
Deploying Country
Kits
You
cannot use the deployment method to install country kits. Instead, add them
using the Windows “Add or Remove Features” option after a
deployment installation.
MAPCSASSIGN - Opens the Coordinate System assign dialog to assign a
coordinate system to current map.
MAPCSCREATE - Creates a coordinate system definition using creation
wizard. (alias / same as ADEDEFCRDSYS)
MAPCSLIBRARY - Opens the Coordinate System library to manage all
coordinate system definitions, view details of definition or edit a custom
definition, etc.
MAPSELECTWSPACE
- Opens the Select Your
Default Workspace window, where you can change your default workspace.
MAPWSPACESWITCHON
- Turns on
a prompt to switch to the Maintenance workspace when you open an industry model
drawing.
MAPPROJECTCLOSE
- Closes the
current enterprise industry model.
MAPDBCONNECT - Connects
to an enterprise industry model.
MAPDBDISCONNECT
- Disconnects from an
enterprise industry model.
MAPPROJECTOPEN - Opens
an industry model project.
MAPSTARTSSA - Starts
the Storm and Sanitary Analysis module. You must have a wastewater industry
model project open to use this.
MAPTOACAD - Exports
the current map to plain AutoCAD format. You have options for saving as
“editable” or “visually faithful.”
MAPSTYLE
- Allows
you to switch between Enhanced and Standard modes of stylization.
MAPLABEL2ANN - A
tool that allows you to convert existing feature labels to text.
MAPMTEXT2ANN - A tool that creates text
layers based on Mtext objects.
Points Created in AutoCAD Map 3D Are Not Visible in ESRI ArcGIS
If
you create new points in a SHP file using AutoCAD Map 3D, you may not be able
to view those points in ESRI ArcGIS. To work around this problem, take the
following steps:
1. Open
the Editor toolbar in ESRI ArcGIS by clicking Tools
> Editor toolbar.
2. On the
Editor toolbar, click Editor > Start Editing.
3. Click
Editor > Save Edits to save your changes.
Assigning a Coordinate System to a Point Cloud for Indexing
The
point cloud feature only supports a subset of the coordinate systems available
in Autodesk Map 3D. For a list of supported coordinate systems please visit the
Knowledge Base for Map page on the Autodesk Map 3D web site. If your data is in
LAS format and you don't need to assign a CS, you can use the AutoCAD point
cloud command to create the index. ASCII files are not supported in AutoCAD.
Digitizing Sample Files
You
cannot modify sample files from a limited user account in Windows Vista and
Windows 7. To fix this issue, log on to AutoCAD Map 3D as an
administrative user.
Connecting to PostGIS Data Sources
You
can use the OSGeo PostgreSQL
provider to connect to PostGIS data sources.
Connecting to Oracle on Windows Vista and Windows 7
You
cannot connect to an Oracle database from a limited user account in Windows
Vista or Windows 7. In order to connect to an Oracle database in Windows Vista
or Windows 7 log on to AutoCAD Map 3D as an administrative user.
Moving Drawings Between Systems
If
you want to move your drawing from one computer to another, make sure that you
have checked in all your features. If you do not check in all your features,
AutoCAD Map 3D will not be able to populate the feature cache on the computer
to which you have moved your drawing.
FDO
ArcGIS Provider is not supported on 64 bit operating systems.
Schema
Edit limitations: You cannot create a new ArcGIS schema or create feature
classes. Instead, create feature classes within existing schemas or use ESRI
tools to create those schemas and classes. Feature classes created with the
Autodesk 3D Map Schema Editor are read-only. The Data Connect window does not
display classes created in AutoCAD Map 3D. Instead, use ArcCatalog
to version-enable those feature classes and make them read/write.
Connection
Issues: With Windows 7, a lower case sde.default
version shows up in the version list, but causes a schema access connection
error. Instead, enter SDE.DEFAULT in upper case.
Coordinate
Systems: If you set the map coordinate system prior to connecting to a data
store, you will get an error when you access a schema. Connect first, set the map coordinate
system, and then add the necessary layers.
Geometry
errors: Layers with features that have bad geometry fail to load.
When creating new classes, the provider
does not check for ArcGIS keywords being used in class or property names (e.g.
DESC) and trying to create classes that use keywords will result in invalid
identifier errors. This can happen via Schema Editor or Bulk Copy where a new
class is being created. See the ArcGIS documentation for information about
keywords.
When loading very large layers, the
progress bar may not show the ongoing feature count, but the load still
progresses.
WMS layers
Layers
published with 3398 EPSG code by a WMS server will not display properly in
AutoCAD Map 3D. As an alternative, set the Server EPSG to a 31468 coordinate
system.
Creating Custom Coordinate Systems on Windows Vista and Windows 7
You cannot use the ADEDEFCRDSYS or MAPCSCREATE commands to create
a custom coordinate system on the Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems.
By default, the folder where the dictionaries are installed is write-protected.
To allow write access, modify the write access for the “Geospatial
Coordinate Systems” folder under C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\.
Coordinate Systems May Display Incorrectly
Certain
SHP folders may contain erroneously-formed Well Known Text (WKT) coordinate
projection descriptions in their .PRJ files. In these cases, the coordinate
system reported in the Data Connect dialog may appear to be incorrect.
Depending on the actual WKT text encountered, the discrepancy may be innocuous,
and the data will be added to the map correctly. For example, some WGS-84
Lat-Lon WKT strings may inadvertently be reported as another Lat-Lon coordinate
system, such as Antarctic98.LL (which has the same mathematical definition as
LL84).
Updating the Infrastructure Map Server
After
installing a new version of AutoCAD Map 3D 2012, you must update the System
User TBSYS/MAPSYS.
Note:
When you update Autodesk Infrastructure Application Extension, you must also
update AutoCAD Map 3D and System Administrator.
Autodesk Industry Model Setup
Connecting to TBSYS/MAPSYS
When
you start Autodesk Industry Model Setup and the system cannot connect to the
System User, do the following:
1.
In the server explorer
in the left pane, click the System User.
2.
Enter your password and
click Update.
Note:
If you try to connect to TBSYS/MAPSYS using a wrong password more than 10
times, the TBSYS/MAPSYS account may be locked.
Using Wastewater Import on Windows Vista
If
you plan to use Wastewater Import on Windows Vista, you must install Windows
Vista Service Pack 1.
System Administrator Fails to Import Some DMP Files
The
default export utility (EXP) is no longer supported by Oracle for 11g. Import
(IMP) is still supported for backward compatibility. Therefore, existing
documents of Oracle 10g exported by AutoCAD Map 3D can still be imported using
the known functionality in System Administrator.
If
you export from System Administrator with Oracle 11g R2, in some cases the
resulting DMP file fails to import. The export utility ignores some empty
tables without displaying a warning message to the user. This creates an error
when you attempt to import.
As
a workaround, users of Oracle 11g can use the new Oracle Data Pump utility
introduced with Oracle 10g. Oracle import/export utility dumps and Oracle Data
Pump dumps are not compatible. After manually exporting a schema using Oracle
Data Pump export, users can manually import the schema on the target database
using Oracle Data Pump import. The schema can then be imported as a document in
System Administrator using Import From Existing Oracle
Schema.
Using Oracle 10g or 11g Data Pump Utility
Use
the Data Pump to import and export Oracle documents. For more information,
refer to the Oracle documentation.
1.
Prepare database
directory for export and import.
You need a database directory on
both the databases where you will export and import the document. By default,
Oracle is pre-configured with a default data pump directory called
DATA_PUMP_DIR. Check the physical location of the DATA_PUMP_DIR or any other
database directory using the following command (as SYS):
Select d.directory_name,
d.directory_path, o.created,
o.last_ddl_time
from sys.DBA_DIRECTORIES d, sys.DBA_OBJECTS
o
where o.OWNER =.OWNERand o.OBJECT_NAME =.DIRECTORY_NAME
and o.object_type =DIRECTORY'
and o.owner =SYS'order by object_name;
This command returns a physical
location for DATA_PUMP_DIR for example,D:\oracle\admin\orcl\dpdump\
If there is no data pump
directory configured, create or replace it with the following statements:
CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY
DATA_PUMP_DIR
AS
'D:\oracle\admin\orcl\dpdump\';
GRANT READ, WRITE ON DIRECTORY
SYS.DATA_PUMP_DIR TO EXP_FULL_DATABASE;
GRANT READ, WRITE ON DIRECTORY
SYS.DATA_PUMP_DIR TO IMP_FULL_DATABASE;
2.
Export an Oracle
document using the data pump utility.
If the document to export is
job-enabled, the exporting user (SYSTEM in the example below) must have the
system privilege EXEMPT ACCESS POLICY in order to bypass fine-grained access
control.
Warning If
this privilege is missing, features in open jobs might be missing in the export
dump. Statement to execute (e.g. as SYSTEM):
GRANT EXEMPT ACCESS POLICY TO
SYSTEM;
Call the data pump utility on a
command line. Adapt the parameters to match your connection and schema.
expdp
system/pwd@orcl DUMPFILE=B_LM_JOB.dmp" LOGFILE=xp_TB_LM_JOB.log"DIRECTORYڔA_PUMP_DIR
SCHEMAS=TB_LM_JOB') CONTENT=L JOB_NAME=xp1'
3.
Import an Oracle
document using the data pump utility.
Call the data pump utility on a
command prompt. Adapt the parameters to match your connection and schema.
NoteYou must
specify additional parameters if the tablespaces on
the source and the target databases are different. Refer to the Oracle
documentation for details.
impdp
system/pwd@orcl DUMPFILE=B_LM_JOB.dmp"
LOGFILE=mp_TB_LM_JOB.log”
DIRECTORYڔA_PUMP_DIR SCHEMAS=TB_LM_JOB')
CONTENT=L JOB_NAME=mp1'
4.
Once the import is
complete and the document schema exists on your database, use System
Administrator to import the document. Select the option, Import From Existing Oracle schema.
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