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Level of Detail View

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Message 1 of 17
csevers
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Level of Detail View

How can I turn it off permanently? Or change the default to off? It's always on when I open my drawings.

I save the files with it off, but when I reopen, it's still on. A real pain in the butt when plotting since if I batch plot, all of my contours are off, which eliminates using batch plot entirely. Luckily, I only have 5 figures at the moment, but once we get to design phase I will have many more and require batch plotting.

 

I'm using civil3d 2013, I have never run into this before with any other versions.

Chris Severs, PE
Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 64 bit
64.0 GB RAM
Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz
NVIDA Quadro M4000
Civil 3D 2014
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Message 2 of 17
neilyj666
in reply to: csevers

I've never noticed this issue, mine is turned off and stays off.

Clutching at straws a bit but is it on in your template?

neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
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Message 3 of 17
tom_berning
in reply to: csevers

The Level of Detail is only used for viewing. When you plot a drawing, the full detail of all objects is plotted no matter how they appear on the screen. Batch plotting should still work.

Tom Berning
Woolpert, Inc.
Civil 3D 2020
Message 4 of 17
wfberry
in reply to: csevers

 

View tab -> Views panel -> Level of Detail.(select)

 

This should turn it OFF or ON.

 

Bill

Message 5 of 17
csevers
in reply to: csevers

Yes, I agree that does turn it on and off.

However, no matter how I save the drawing, with level of display on, or off, when I open the drawing, there are no contours displayed whatsoever, no matter how close I zoom, and the level of display is always on. Then when I turn it off, the contours come on. Then if I turn the level of display back on, it works correctly. If I save at this point, close the drawing, and open it again, it all starts over with no contours displayed at all.

Chris Severs, PE
Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 64 bit
64.0 GB RAM
Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz
NVIDA Quadro M4000
Civil 3D 2014
Message 6 of 17
sboon
in reply to: csevers

Sounds like there might be a problem with your installation, or maybe an error in your template drawing.  I turned off this setting long ago, and never had any trouble with it after that.

 

Steve
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Message 7 of 17
csevers
in reply to: sboon

I'm still having the same issue. I think it may be due to the size of the surface, it's about 1,000,000 points. It's about 4 square miles, I didn't think that was that large, maybe I'm wrong.

Chris Severs, PE
Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 64 bit
64.0 GB RAM
Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz
NVIDA Quadro M4000
Civil 3D 2014
Message 8 of 17
AllenJessup
in reply to: csevers

That's fairly large. Can you break it up into sections?

 

Allen Jessup



Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

Message 9 of 17
csevers
in reply to: AllenJessup

Will it help to have multiple smaller surfaces instead of one big one? They will all still need to be in one base drawing. Currently, I have two surfaces (one is approx. 250,000 points, the other is approx. 750,000). 

Chris Severs, PE
Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 64 bit
64.0 GB RAM
Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz
NVIDA Quadro M4000
Civil 3D 2014
Message 10 of 17
AllenJessup
in reply to: csevers

I'll try to get back to you on that. End of the day here.

 

Allen



Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

Message 11 of 17
mcpartpj
in reply to: csevers

I'm having a similar issue where if I plot off sheet set manager it will plot the files with missing topographic information. The only way I get around this is going to the files with a lot of countour lines and manually turning the Level of detail of and then plotting from plot button.

Message 12 of 17
csevers
in reply to: mcpartpj

Yeah, I think it has to do with the same bug that will turn on level of detail view when you open a drawing eventhough you previously saved the drawing with level of detail view off.

Chris Severs, PE
Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 64 bit
64.0 GB RAM
Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz
NVIDA Quadro M4000
Civil 3D 2014
Message 13 of 17
tcorey
in reply to: csevers

What about adding this to your acaddoc.lsp file:

 

Look in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2015\Support\en-us for acad2015doc.lsp.

 

Copy file to whatever folder is top of your Support File Search Path and rename it acaddoc.lsp.

 

Open with Notepad, go to the bottom and paste the following:

 

 

;The follow code turns off Level of Detail mode

(vl-load-com)

(vl-cmdf "LEVELOFDETAILOFF")

;end of code to turn off Level of Detail mode

 

Every drawing you open will now have LevelofDetail turned off automatically.

 



Tim Corey
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Message 14 of 17
DRW_CAD
in reply to: tcorey

We've been experiencing this issue with 2015 Civil 3D. Drawings are saved with level of detail turned off and when they are opened again, level of detail is turned on. Despite what the help menu says, C3D surfaces are plotting with contour data missing when LOD is on. We publish through sheet set manager so it's a mess to say the least.

 

I've added the lisp routine from the post above to our acaddoc.lsp and I'll let you know how that works.

 

But I sort of assumed this was a system variable & I use express tools system variable editor to see where it's stored, i.e. drawing vs. registry and it wasn't in there. So is it just a command? Is it supposed to stay turned off if you turn it off in a drawing and save? Or??? Help and knowledge base seem to treat it as a command that would be saved in the drawing but... It's clearly not behaving as stated in the help menu.

Message 15 of 17
btillett
in reply to: tom_berning

Publishing from sheetset manager with LEVELOFDETAIL on does not always publish all information. I have verified it a few times now. Publishing from sheetset with levelofdetail on has resulted in pdfs and plots without surface contours. CIVIL 3D 2015.

Boris
Message 16 of 17
DANMETCALF2699
in reply to: tcorey

Thanks, Tim.

 

This has been driving me crazy in 2016 and your fix worked!

Message 17 of 17
rkmcswain
in reply to: tcorey

@tcorey wrote:

What about adding this to your acaddoc.lsp file:

(vl-load-com)

(vl-cmdf "LEVELOFDETAILOFF")

@tcorey - what to do about this? 

 

levelofdetailoff.png

When LEVELOFDETAIL is enabled, this modal dialog displays, even when initiated by a lisp file. I presume it would only happen once, since this is a system level setting, but I don't want this happening to anyone. Just want to turn it off silently.

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