AutoCAD Civil 3D :: Turns All Layers To White And Drawing Becomes Inactive?
Feb 24, 2012
I got this weird error on Civil 2012, I have been working with Civil products for a few years now and have never had this happen till today. Other co-workers have had the same problem which only started to occur yesterday.
The Error; Was working on a drawing with multiple layers, surfaces, alignments, assemblies, corridors, and of course point groups. The screen froze for about 2 seconds when I was attempting to hatch an object, after the quick freeze all my layers (each assigned different colors) turned on (visible) and changed color to white. Everything on the drawing became inactive except for the save button and the close button. So I saved it and closed the drawing, I had other drawings open at the same time and these were never affected (still had color and could work on them). Since the save button was still working I never lost any work that I had completed but it is still annoying having to close and open the drawing since larger drawings can take a few min to open.
Is this an Autocad issue or is it something with our machines/network?
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.53 GHz
6 GB Ram
NVidia Quadro 600
64-bit Operating System
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[code]...
This is my lisp code.
;;;-------------------------------------------------------------------
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[code].....
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