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TIFF Image Problems in Civil 3D 2008 SP2

Example of Scrambled Image If you use Civil 3D 2008, hopefully you have installed Service Pack 2. However, if you frequently work with TIFF images you may have noticed the “scrambled” look that occurs periodically. There are several quick fixes to this problem, but each has its downside.

  1. Reload the image. To do this go to the Insert menu and select Image Manager. right-click on the name of the raster image and select Reload. The downside to this method is that a large TIFF image can take several minutes to reload.
  2. Convert the images to a different format. JPG’s tend to not have this problem, however they don’t contain spatial information as TIFFs can.
  3. Use brute force in the form of this document. This document walks you through replacing the new DLL with the old DLL.

Please let us know if you try this. I’d love to hear how it works for you!

This entry was posted on Friday, January 25th, 2008 at 12:43 pm and is filed under Civil. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “TIFF Image Problems in Civil 3D 2008 SP2”

  1. Dave Drahn Says:
    February 4th, 2008 at 10:59 am

    Autodesk told me it was related to the tif compression. We use the newer dll and just make sure all our tifs are LZW compressed (they tear when they are not compressed). This seems to consistently solve the problem.

  2. John Benstead Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

    We have successfully tested this fix on AutoCAD 2008, AutoCAD Map 3D 2008 and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008.
    Many thanks.

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