You should expect about 7GB of uncompressed installation files and a compressed download of around 40-50% of that.
Read the instructions before punching any buttons to get and install your download. As of this writing, minor changes were still being ironed out. The 2013 platform download and install experience will be different. Autodesk improved on the download performance and the user experience of the “Download Manager”- it probably deserves and may even get a new name by RTM.
Many of us will get the new software delivered via download. We also have more performance tuning capabilities and control inside Options in 2013 too. You can think about looking at things from multiple new perspectives without the fear of major time lost to regen. Those release 2012 interface changes are probably worth another go around if you didn’t like them much before on less than super hardware. Visual Styles and screen rendering of almost all of Civil 3D’s Feature Style representations (Plan, Profile, Section, etc) are faster. The AutoCAD 2013 display engine is noticeably faster. Civil 3D 2013 also includes the newer Infrastructure Modeler (.IMX) import and export hooks right in the Ribbon. Survey Imports into Survey databases are faster. A big UNDO isn’t a whole lot better though. In and out text format issues mostly go away thanks to 2013’s faster native handling of object creation, storage, and display in the new 2013 dwg. The data coming in was often painfully slow and an UNDO afterwards was equally painful. Are You Smiling Yet?Īnother frequent Civil 3D user complaint has been in and out of data in text formats - formats like LandXML. You didn’t? The performance improvements for the core Features in 2013 may make this less an issue on the same hardware. In past releases, a lot of us ALWAYS turned off Automatic Rebuilds for Corridors and Surface Features to shorten our initial drawing load times.
Lots of surface labels still take time – but less time than before. We all know that “Displaying contours” routine for surfaces. The core Civil 3D Features of Surfaces, Alignments, Profiles, Corridors, and Pipe Networks all load faster.
Opens of the actual references are faster too. They sort of pop up all in a rush on drawing open instead of trickling in like they often do in 2010-12. You’ll notice that loads of Data Shortcuts and opens of any data reference Features (DREF) and external references (XREF) drawings will be faster. That’s what a Managed Dynamic Model is all about. Our Civil 3D projects often have lots of interconnected drawings and Civil 3D Features. The 2013 release of Civil 3D makes it harder to find any of break times during the day. You’ll have to find another time for the On Load trip to the coffee pot. After you’re all set up and initialized for the first time, you will notice the shorter load time. Whoa.ĪutoCAD Civil 2013 is, in a word, “Brisker”. The new 64-bit release noticeably outperformed the 2012 release on the same machine with the same data everywhere. The RTM (Release To Manufacturing) build was not available when this post was written. I employed an older machine with generic video that met the bare minimum 64-bit hardware requirements to test and review betas of the software. Pay attention to the published requirements and recommendations, but they have NOT really changed. There will be a 32-bit version but I say, ”Walk away from 32-bit”. Your experience of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013’s performance will vary based on whether or not you run in 64-bit and Windows 7. Ya see - I wrote the upcoming AUGI WORLD article about the new AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 this year.
In fact, there will be an entire series of posts about the new Civil 3D 2013. I’ll talk More about the new Pressure Pipe Features in another upcoming post. AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 even has some new Features of its own. We already live in the yearly release cycle world of the Civil 3D Features. It helps a lot with AutoCAD Map 3D 2013 Feature styles too.įor Civil 3D users the dwg format change should hardly matter at all. The new AutoCAD 2013 dwg and display engine produces some significant performance boosts for us all inside AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013. So yes, the AutoCAD 2013 release platform includes a new.
Were you? If Autodesk is not going to be superstitious, we shouldn’t be either.Īutodesk continues to follow the 3-year dwg platform upgrade cycle. Frankly, I was More than a bit surprised Autodesk decided to go with the “2013” moniker for the release.