Undo Issue

[Anonymous]

I am having an impossible time trying to utilize the "UNDO" command (Civil 3d 2013). Every time I use it I get "DMUI_FULLREGENCMD" on the command line and I can keep entering in the undo command literally hundreds of times and still not undo the last command I entered.

Could someone please tell me what is going on and how do I fix the problem.

Many thanks

Wil

[neilyj666]

Think this is a known but unresolved issue

[AllenJessup]

Have you tried .Undo - notice the dot in front. The dot means utilize the basic AutoCAD command even if it has been undefined or redefined.

Allen Jessup

[antoniovinci]

What happens if you simply issue CTRL-Z instead of inputting the word UNDO..?

[tcorey]

If you use the down arrow next to the Undo arrow on the Quick Access Toolbar, you have a list of recent actions. Scroll down to undo to the point to which you want to return.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

As it turns out, my drawing was corrupt. I salvaged what I could and re-built it. It now works fine......for now.

Thanks


Wilf Carter
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[Anonymous]

My drawing was corrupt which apparently was causing the issue. I re-built the drawing and it now works fine.

Thanks


Wilf Carter
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[Anonymous]

My drawing was corrupt. I salvaged what I could and rebuilt it. So far it's been working properly.

Thanks


Wilf Carter
Senior Designer

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Fax: 902-469-4399
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[troma]

Was it very, very, very corrupt?  

[brent.morris.widseth]

We have been having the same issue with the Undo not working correctly and I was hoping Autodesk would have fixed it in Civil 3D 2014 but it's not but I finally figured something out.

I started doing some testing with Civil 3D 2013 and 2014 and I have confirmed this with both versions.

I first started testing to make sure it wasn't our custom shortcut or our custom profile and that wasn't causing the probrem, so I then started testing our template that we make for each version and I noticed that if I start a brand new drawing using our template that the Undo doesn't work, so then I decided to use the standard template out of the box and wouldn't you know it the Undo worked and I couldn't break it. So now with the same session open with 2 drawings open using the same shortcut to launch Civil 3D and using the same custom profile I can have 2 different files open using 2 different templates and sure enough the Undo problem occurs in our drawing that was using our template but the template that came with both version works fine.

So the problem is within the file/template, which makes sense now to me because some users will say it works fine in this drawing but not in this other drawing, but now I have no clue on how to fix this because an audit/recover doesn't work, about the only thing we could do is remake our template from the standard template, bring in all of our styles and save it as our new template and then wblock stuff from old drawings into this new template, ya way to much work.

Well Autodesk hopefully this will help you and hopefully you can help us figure out what's in the drawing file that is making the Undo fail.

Thanks

Brent Morris

[tcorey]

Have you checked the Undo Control settings in the bad template drawing? Are you sure you're set to All? 

Tim

[brent.morris.widseth]

Yes, all settings are correct.

I have done more testing this morning and I think I know what is causing the Undo to fail.

I have narrowed it down to Associative Hatching that will cause the Undo to all of sudden list every mouse zoom as an Undo command and as soon as I take off the associative hatching then the Undo command will work and will combine all the mouse zooms into 1 undo command.

Could someone verify this and see if you get the same results.

Start a brand new drawing by using Autodesk Civil 3D template "_AutoCAD Civil 3D (Imperial) NCS.dwt" which is located under C:\Users\Your User Name\AppData\Local\Autodesk\C3D 2013\enu\Template.

Save the drawing before you do anything, then just drawn a couple of lines, then using your mouse middle button to zoom in and out, then go to the Undo icon pull down and you should only see a few undo commands. Now draw a rectangle and hatch it with Ansi 31 and do not make it associative hatch yet, once done save it, then using middle mouse scoll button again zoom in and out and then go back to the undo and again you should only have a few Undo commands.

Now let's see if we can break it, now select the existing hatch and make it associative hatch, now save the drawing, now just draw a line, check undo, now use middle mouse button to zoom in and out, now go back to the Undo and in my testing you should get a whole bunch of Undo commands.

I would also be curious if you take an existing drawing that you know you are having problems with and if it by chance has hatching in it select it and see if it's associative hatch and if it is turn it off and see if that fixes that drawing.

I have doubled and tripled checked everything and with all my testing I have concluded that Associative Hatching causes the Undo command to not combine all the zoom in's and out's into 1 Undo command like it suppose to.

So now if I can get other people to test this and reply back to this post then maybe Autodesk can get to work on it to solve this problem.

Thanks

Brent Morris

[brent.morris.widseth]

Correction, I meant to say Annotative versus Associative, so replace Annotative for the word Associative in my previous reply

Sorry about that.

Brent Morris

[brent.morris.widseth]

I have been able to confirm on 3 different machines that the Undo command will fail if we have just 1 hatch that is set to annotative hatch and this only happens in Civil 3D 2013 SP2 and Civil 3D 2014 No service packs.

I have tested this also in Civil 3D 2012 SP3 and the Undo works fine and I couldn't break the undo by using annotative hatching at least with SP3.

I have also tested this with ADT & MEP 2013 & 2014 and the problem only exists with Civil 3D 2013 & 2014 and only if there is just 1 piece of annotative hatch within that drawing.

It doesn't matter if the HPAnnotative system variable it 0 (off), if there is 1 piece of hatch within that drawing that has annotative hatching turned on within a Civil 3D 2013 or 2014 drawing then the Undo doesn't work correctly.

I have been able to take the Civil 3D 2013 & 2014 drawings that have this problem and change every single piece of hatching and turn off the annotative hatching and the Undo will start working for that drawing jsut like it's suppose to.

[Chuck_L_AKS · Accepted solution]

We have recently been getting this same error. I have attempted to fix some of these with the temp save path. However, have anyone looked at the possibility of this being somehow related to drawing from a previous release? Before 2013. And how is this addressed in 2015 or 2016? I opened the troubled drawing with 2015 and there is no problem.