I know this may come off as a rant but I am sincerely besides my self with the difficulties I never experienced in any other Civil software.
I started using Carlson Civil 2015/Autocad 2015 last year. I have used Autodesk products for 25yrs. I have used Softdesk, LDD, Civil3D, Inroads, Geopak, Terrimodel and now carlson. For the life of me cant figure out why these things are happening. I dont know if its a setting, a glitch or this is a limitation of carlson.
Things like:
1-it never retaining file paths for settings,
2-having to dialog box my self to death everytime I cut or update a profile, alignment, tin, - really? none of these settings can be associated with the profile,centerline, or tin I just created, I have to reselect this everytime?
3-giving incorrect (actually repeating) elevations on vertical curve labels (Ive only noticed on VC labels could be elsewhere,
4-drawing a sampled tin profile halfway the first time and then the entire way the second time,
5-regular autocad functions Ive used for 20yrs without issue now stop working after using once and produce error (have to restart cad to get them to work again),
6-cannot work with annotative text, well no concept of annotative scaling at all really - text settings are like those of softdesk from 1998
7-changes display resolution for arc and poly line curves no matter how many times I change them in options/profile
8-creates 3d lines on template layer when trying to edit triangulation & and they remain when done editing,
9-have to zoom in and out to get command prompt to update when doing simple things like distance command,
10-distance command is almost useless as I cant see where I started from until I zoom - and then its usually far away from where I actually clicked,
11-commands cancel when re-selecting a snap (as in, ooops I need midpoint not endpoint - selecting from middle button snap menu)
12-joining polylines is a constant gamble - sometimes autocad join works sometimes carlson join works, sometimes you have to edit the pline and use join - both 2d and 3d
13-cant seem to find a way to stop it from making its layers current - I dont need triangulation layer current to edit a surface
14-editing surface - add breakline almost never works, deleting triangles is absurdly backwords in work flow (why cant I just select lines like every other DTM software on the market) So if I accidently delete a triangle - I have to start over b/c I cant add the breakline back.
15-cant find a way to make it stop changing the LTS when evoking a annotation command
16-using a 3d poly to trim often locks Acad
If anyone has insight to any of the above, it would be appreciated.
thanks (and sorry but Im at my wits end)