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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
That's fairly large. Can you break it up into sections?
Allen Jessup
Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager
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).
I'll try to get back to you on that. End of the day here.
Allen
Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks, Tim.
This has been driving me crazy in 2016 and your fix worked!
What about adding this to your acaddoc.lsp file:
(vl-load-com)
(vl-cmdf "LEVELOFDETAILOFF")
@tcorey - what to do about this?
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.