Hi There:
Recently one of our clients had experienced some issues installing the Survey Link into Civil 3D 2008. After the link was installed when you type in "startsurveylink" into the command line you get an "unknown command" response. Another area that was checked was that AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 TDS SurveyLink Installer appears in the Add or Remove Programs list and a directory named 'svlink' is created under C:\Program Files\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008\.
In order for the Survey Link to work you MUST first install SP2.
With help from Autodesk below is the resolution to the Survey Link Installation issue:
The individual had been double clicking on the msp file to apply the service pack. This appears to apply the service pack but will not update all of the files that are included in the patch. Hence Survey Link was not working.
A little background on the msp vs. exe issue. In a perfect world, you should be able to double click on the msp and obtain the same results as you would from double clicking on the exe. Unfortunately, with the 2008 release, there were issues with our msp file which we found after release (but before the service pack shipped) that forced us to include additional information and tasks to the exe. This left the msp file with the correct information but unable to update an installation independent of the exe or wrapper information.
As stated in the read me, this resulted in deployments requiring the service pack to be merged rather than appended. There is also a warning upon extracting the msp from the exe file (command line entries with dialog box warning). The differences between merging and appending are fairly straightforward. When you merge a service pack to a deployment, you are forcing the files to be included as part of the base installation. If you append a service pack to a deployment, the install of the application completes and then the service pack is applied to the application. This is referred to as daisy chaining and is common for deployments. The reason this won’t work is the same as why you cannot click on the msp and have the patch apply correctly. The added information isn’t included which ensures the files are updated. Merging forces the files to be updated.
These issues will be addressed for future releases.
Hope this helps!
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Thursday, December 06, 2007
AU Presentation Handout
Hello Everyone!
Last week was a grueling, fun and exciting week in Las Vegas for Autodesk University 2007. For those of you that were able to attend I hope you had a wonderful time. For those of you that attended my class here is a link to the handout. I know I had a few people that came up to me asking if I had extra copies. This was the first year that Autodesk went "Green" and did not offer handouts at the door. Here is the link to my handout for your review.
Enjoy!
Last week was a grueling, fun and exciting week in Las Vegas for Autodesk University 2007. For those of you that were able to attend I hope you had a wonderful time. For those of you that attended my class here is a link to the handout. I know I had a few people that came up to me asking if I had extra copies. This was the first year that Autodesk went "Green" and did not offer handouts at the door. Here is the link to my handout for your review.
Enjoy!
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