Figure Prefix Database

[Matt.Anderson]

Can you delete a figure prefix database?

I created one accidentally in our template. I see that when Civil 3d closes, it releases the two files in the Figure Prefix Path, but when you open that template that "empty" database appears again.

Matthew Anderson
anderson at jaseng.com

[Anonymous]

MAnderson wrote:
> Can you delete a figure prefix database?
>
> I created one accidentally in our template. I see that when Civil 3d
> closes, it releases the two files in the Figure Prefix Path, but when
> you open that template that "empty" database appears again.

You should be able to delete via Windows Explorer. It's located at

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\C3D
2007\enu\survey

Then refresh the view on the survey tab. *Should* work - let me know
if it doesn't.



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Jason Hickey

Civil 3D 2007, SP3
Dell Precision M70
2 GIG RAM, 256 MB nVidia Quadro FX Go1400
Intel Centrino 2 gHz Processor

www.civil3d.com

[Matt.Anderson]

Oh, I wish it did. But, it doesn't. Actually, it is "empty" in the template, and when Civil 3d closes, the db files in that location disappear.

They reappear when you open the template or create a new drawing, those "empty" fdb files are created.

[Anonymous]

MAnderson wrote:
> Oh, I wish it did. But, it doesn't. Actually, it is "empty" in the
> template, and when Civil 3d closes, the db files in that location
> disappear.
>
> They reappear when you open the template or create a new drawing,
> those "empty" fdb files are created.

I think something might be hosed with your template...possibly.

Hosed is a technical term, btw 😉

--
Jason Hickey

Civil 3D 2007, SP3
Dell Precision M70
2 GIG RAM, 256 MB nVidia Quadro FX Go1400
Intel Centrino 2 gHz Processor

www.civil3d.com

[Anonymous]

Try this path: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Autodesk\C3D 2007\Survey

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Mike Norton
Total CAD Systems - Houston, Texas
wrote in message news:5451999@discussion.autodesk.com...
Oh, I wish it did. But, it doesn't. Actually, it is "empty" in the
template, and when Civil 3d closes, the db files in that location disappear.

They reappear when you open the template or create a new drawing, those
"empty" fdb files are created.

[Matt.Anderson]

Try this in another template.

Create a figure database and mispell it.
Call it Disappearing Data
Recreate another figure database and correctly spell it.
Call it Actual Data, and populate it.

Save the template. Check your db path. There should be files on both.

Close Civil 3d. The Disappearing Data files should disappear. They do for me.

Open Civil 3d and select the template that you created above.
Do you have the Disappearing Database entry? Check the db path location. The fdb and ldb files for Disappearing Database should be "created".

There is something in the drawing that creates those files! That is what I want to delete.

[Anonymous]

Only one of the 2 files is deleted by C3D (the lock) for me. Deleting the
other one in Window Explorer after C3D closes is all I needed to do to not
have it return.

I get the same result whether I try it in a DWG or DWT file.


wrote in message news:5452062@discussion.autodesk.com...
Try this in another template.

Create a figure database and mispell it.
Call it Disappearing Data
Recreate another figure database and correctly spell it.
Call it Actual Data, and populate it.

Save the template. Check your db path. There should be files on both.

Close Civil 3d. The Disappearing Data files should disappear. They do for
me.

Open Civil 3d and select the template that you created above.
Do you have the Disappearing Database entry? Check the db path location.
The fdb and ldb files for Disappearing Database should be "created".

There is something in the drawing that creates those files! That is what I
want to delete.

[Matt.Anderson]

Maybe it was the amazing dazzle of Windows that wow'd me into thinking that both the fdb and ldb files disappear'd.

But, alas, my eye fool me again. [The reason I was complaining about this is I made a slight typographical error in the name] The error was ever so difference.

Deleting the fdb makes it go away.