AutoCAD Civil 3D :: Error - Attempt To Evaluate A Plane With Zero Normal
Feb 4, 2009
It appears when we attempt to open the file then C3D crashes.
Modeling Operation error: Attempt to evaluate a plane with zero normal.
One of my users got this error in a drawing with about 8-10 fairly complex grading objects in it. I had told him not to leave them as grading objects but he was convinced he could make it work.
HP 4600 4 GB Ram
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66
ATI FireGL V5600 (8.453.1.3000)
Windows XP PRO (SP 3)
2008; (All SP) LDT, MAP 3D
2009; Civil 3d 2009 Update 2 Version 3, Map 3D, Raster
I had this error show up two days ago. My machine maxes my memory out at 12gb when I try to open this file. I've tried to do a recovery, open the .bak and .sv$ files, and insert it into a new drawing but none of this worked. I was able to open it in True View and convert it to another DWG file. Doing this, I saved all my line work, but lost my models. I recreated my drawing from the line work and everything was fine up until now.
I am getting this error again but I can't recover it. I can't do the True View thing this time either. Everything on this project is gone now.
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Our network though is running out of space. We only have a 1Tb server, but in Windows Explorer, the bars are red with only 28.5gb free, and I'm sure it hasn't had any maitanance like defragmentation in a very long time.
Civil 3D 2013 Windows 7 64-bit Xeon W3550 3.07 GHz Nvidia Quadro 4000 12.0 GB RAM
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The yellow surface is the 3dsketch extend to a plane
There might be some tools in Inventor that will do what I am trying, but I have not found it yet. I have tried extend surface, but that will not take it the direction I want.
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"Can not import from this catalog at this time. The catalog is either in use by another copy of Lightroom or was closed improperly. If it was closed improperly, please consider doing an integrity check when opening."
I am not running LR on any other computers so I figure Lightroom was "closed improperly".
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# Error: file: E:/Games/Autodesk/Maya2013/scripts/others/fromNativePath.mel line 90: (unicode error) 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'xf3' in position 29: ordinal not in range(128) # file -i "C:/Documents and Settings/Maródi Marcell/Asztal/iron_pickaxe.png"
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var mydoc = app.activeDocument;var mytext = mydoc.textFrames;var allX_Vaues = new Array();for (i =0; i < mytext.length; i++) {var mytextFrames = mydoc.textFrames[i];var theMatrix = mytextFrames.matrix;allX_Vaues.push(theMatrix.mValueTX)var firstEval = allX_Vaues//$.writeln(theMatrix.mValueA+" "+theMatrix.mValueB+" "+theMatrix.mV alueC+" "+theMatrix.mValueD+" "+theMatrix.mValueTX+" "+theMatrix.mV alueTY);//alert(allX_Vaues);}//alert(allX_Vaues[1]);for (i =0; i < allX_Vaues.length; i++) {if (allX_Vaues[i] == allX_Vaues[i + 1] ) {alert(allX_Vaues[i] + " and " + allX_Vaues[i +1] + " are the same");}else{alert(allX_Vaues[i] + " and " + allX_Vaues[i +1] + " are different");} } [code]....
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Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Nvidia Quadro 2000 8Gb RAM 2 x Quad Core Intel i7 2600 CPU @ 3.4GHz
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