Autocad Civil 3d 2012 Crack Free Download Torrent
Nayra Wellinghoff
We have some clients who want deliverables in plain AutoCAD -- they do not have C3D. We want to be able to deliver clean AutoCAD drawings to them. I'd rather not have to do a separate install of AutoCAD to do this if possible. Civil 3D as AutoCAD still inserts proxy objects.
That doesn't fully work. That will explode the C3D objects in the model space to core AutoCAD objects, but it still leaves the styles and settings. What that means is, when you Export to AutoCAD with AEC exploded objects, the person on the other end still gets a message about the drawing having civil objects even when none are visible.
The only way I can think of to solve this is do a save as of your drawing, do and export to dwg (or explode/extract everything) and then do a dxfout which should remove everything C3D related..... Just dont open the new dumb drawing with C3D as ACAD, because then it will put the some civil objects back in the drawing.
Rick Jackson
Survey CAD Technician VI
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What I ended up doing was to Export to AutoCAD from C3D, then open that exported drawing in C3D as AutoCAD and create a new, blank drawing. After that, do a COPYBASE from the not-quite-really-exported drawing into the new, blank drawing.
Thanks for the great work-around suggestions -- they can effectively convert a Civil 3D drawing to a "vanilla" AutoCAD drawing. But the bottom line is that Civil 3D As AutoCAD is not really Civil 3D as AutoCAD. It is Civil 3D that looks like AutoCAD, but is not functionally identical to AutoCAD.
We will solve the problem by deploying AutoCAD to the computers. All our multi-user seats are AECC, so that doesn't pose a licensing issue for us. I was just hoping to not have to deploy both products.
Some context for the discussion: all entities are objects, but not all objects are entities. Entities are what you see on the drawing - lines, circles, text, and vertical-specific ones like surfaces. Objects may be something other than entities, since they can also be data structures specific to Civil3D, such as styles. These are attached to the drawing file, or in some instances to entities in the drawing file. So when there is a warning about "objects" in the drawing file that is meant literally; its not limited to entities you can see in model or paper space.
I had a similar problem, but it was because the DWG I received was created with a newer version of C3D. Everything else I tried (Export to ACAD, Export to DXF, etc) either failed to create a file or did not remove the proxy objects. First I selected and exploded all proxy objects, then I QSELECTed all proxy objects Exclude from new list, QSELECTed all objects and append to current list. With the current list selected, which now excludes all proxy objects, Shift+Ctrl+C and 0,0,0. Open new drawing with same drawing settings and Shift+Ctrl+V and 0,0,0. The new drawing does not contain any proxy objects.
That is a very useful technique; thanks for the link. I will probably try it on my next outgoing request for AutoCAD only files. For my case, I received the Civil 3D file from a surveyor using a newer version and I could not work with it. I only needed to remove the proxy objects but leave all the other data in place with no scaling or translations.
Hi everyone. I know this is an old post but it's worth mentioning. After a combination of the commands mentioned already. We use the free ZombieKiller app from the Autodesk App store to remove the leftover Civil 3D Proxy objects/entities.
neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
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I may get skewered for this but I would avoid using "Attach". I have found many many drawings all gummed up due to nested xrefs. It may be conjecture on my part, but the correlation cannot be ignored. It may work well for architects backgrounds, but I have yet to see a civil project work without errors.
In our office we use xrefs for alignment(all the flatwork), Grad&drainage(contours&structures), utilities(sewer,gas, elec,...), and landscaping... x-align, x-grade, x-util, x-lscape. For working purposes each of those xref need to see the other for reference. If x-align has-grade,x-util.... "ATTACH" then in x-grade needs x-align and it ends up trying to xref in itself because of "ATTACH", and this can spiral out of control because each xref keeps building these nested occurrences. By the time you get to a sheet file it becomes a complete mess.
I create a template with relative path, overlay (empty)xrefs. copy into a project folder and everyone is ready to go. No one really needs to concern themselves with attaching xrefs, the project template has it done for them - all I need is a better layer standard and states and I would be golden> IMHO it keeps this clean.
Allen Jessup
CAD Manager - Designer
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If you look at an example you'll get the idea pretty quick. Essentially, I create a prototype project folder with all the subfolders I want. The I made file new with my c3d.dwt, saved as xref\x-name. Then did all my relative attaching for working drawings, next made a starter sheet file, and again loaded all the xref relative. Even setup a starter SSM.dst file. So now when a job open all the user needs to do is copy the prototype folder to the projects drive on the server, rename the folder to the job number, insert the survey into X-topo, load any aerials to X-aerial, and start working. The relative path for xrefs does not care where the root folder is - try it. Add some crap and copy the root folder around the xref path goes with it - this is great for archiving.
With C3D it's not as simple. Generally, as was mentioned before, you almost always want to use Overlay for C3D. The exeption is for cross sections and corridor drawings. Those you want to use as Attach because of the bugs with how C3D handles XREF'd corridors.
Something has happened in civil 3d 2016 were the full file path is stuck on my screen all the time. I haven't been able to find anyone else who has had this problem. It's starting to get very frustrating. It stays in the same location, and occasionally fades into the background, but when I move my mouse again, it is back. If I have civil 3d open it also displays over whatever else is open in front of it. I have two monitors running, and I've attached a picture of a screen shot, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Something isn't flushing the graphics after it hovers over the file. Is there a Windows Explorer Dialog box behind it that it's picking up the file location from? Is there a particular dialog box it shows up on?
The trick would be to find the pattern and then make sure before moving on the graphic is cleared from the screen. I was debugging a graphic like this yesterday and my problem was that I wasn't properly removing the graphics because I kept creating them and not removing them. I suspect something similar is happening here.
There are no windows or explorer boxes open behind it. It shows up somewhere in the middle of my drawing window. I've toggeled the graphic accelerater on and off with no results. The only thing that makes it go away is restarting the program. However, it comes back often which is annoying more then anything. Thanks for the advice everyone.
get this as well , it seems as if your mouse was hovering over a recent document on your start screen when you open up a drawing , then the file path of said drawing will then appear on your drawing when it opens and it wont go away . this has only started for me since installing autocad 2016 , its annoying as hell but easily rectified by just clicking back to the start page , moving your mouse till the path dissapears and then going back into your drawing again.
I'm the sys admin so I have full access to modify anything and everything, I am comfortable abusing the registry, and I have my Autocad deployments standardized, typically installed with SCCM. So all things being equal I should get similar results from one computer to another.
However I have a handful of users who when they double click a drawing it opens "as autocad" rather than C3D. In the mundane cases I find they have modified their system to open with autocad rather than the autocad laucher, those cases are a simple fix. In a smaller selection its set to drawing launcher but still opens "as autocad"
Steps taken
1) Set drawing launcher as default app
2) compare HKCU\software\autodesk\dwgcommon\Shellex\Apps (these are all the same and do not show any of the multiple entry issues that google says could cause the issue) Further I have downloaded known "good" configurations and loaded them up with no effect.
The last application used to open the DWG file is kept track of. However, with the various AutoCAD, vertical ACAD.EXE's etc. there's also a host of potential start-up variables to consider (profile, workspace, ARX/DBX, language, and a few others). You might be able to throw those arguments into the registry but all in all its better to get into the habit of launching the exact version/application/profile/etc. combination from a shortcut rather than trying to get the computer to mind-read which one you want today.
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