Editing Civil 3d objects in AutoCAD 2012

[cjcad]

I am a standard AutoCAD 2012 user. I am trying to edit drawings created in Civil 3D 2012. Is it possible to edit attribute information? I installed Civil Object Enabler so now I can view the information but can't seem to edit it.

[DaveM]

An Attribute is not strictly Civil 3d, it just text that can be updated within a block, without using block editor. If you could upload a screen shot of what you would like to edit, or a copy of the dwg, i will glady see if i can help.

[cjcad]

Here is a screen shot of the object and the properties dialog box. Thanks.

[Joe-Bouza]

Not with out c3d or programming

[cjcad]

Thank you. What type of programming? Lisp? Can it be accessed with an (entget)?

[Joe-Bouza]

I don't have that skill set. Google SincPak they may have something.

[AllenJessup]

Well.... Anything in the drawing is technically and entity. So entget will return information. But not terribly useful in this case. In C3D 2012 this is what you'd get:

Select object: ((-1 . <Entity name: 7ffff42ad50>) (0 . "AECC_COGO_POINT") (330
. <Entity name: 7ffff4039f0>) (5 . "6955") (100 . "AcDbEntity") (67 . 0) (410 .
"Model") (8 . "V-NODE") (100 . "AeccDbCogoPoint"))

In raw AutoCAD I'd think it would list as a Proxy Entity.

Your best bet is if you can get the author of the drawing to convert the points to blocks and use ExporttoAutoCADD to explode all the Civil objects to AutoCAD entities. If that's not possible you either need Civil 3D or a 3rd party app. SmarDraft, Mapworks or Sincpac may work for you.

Allen Jessup