2013 View from bottom

[sjg]

Has anyone else having issues with 2013, somehow switching to bottom view. Open a drawing and everything looks normal except when I look at the viewcube and I am looking up from the bottom.

[sboon]

Might be the issue solved in this thread.

[neilyj666]

I've certainly noticed this behaviour so I added lines in my acaddoc.lsp to turn off the viewcube

[autoMick]

Use GEOGRAPHICLOCATION to reset your -Z to +Z

I've no idea why it does that.

[sjg]

I didn't really notice until our survey department was going to do some stakeout from our engineering drawings. Put in some points and the coordinates were way off. I am just a lot more concious of what view I am in.

[sboon]

The GEOGRAPHICLOCATION tool is supposed to affect the transfer of data to and from Google Earth.  If I read the help file correctly it's not supposed to have any affect on Civil3D points going to or from survey.  Are you sure that this bug was the cause of your problem?

Steve
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[sjg]

I didn't mess with the GEOGRAHPICLOCATION, survey department uses Carlson so when they opened the drawing, it looked fine, started placing points then they realized coordinates were off. Not sure if new hotfix would resolve the view change.

[HansSMS]

Type GEOGRAPHICLOCATION and set it off in the ensuing dialog. This will get the viewcube to display correctly. Setting the geographic location correctly doesn't work because somewhere later the system changes it to rubbish and the viewcube goes funny again.

Best to do this in all  your templates as well.

[Jeff_M]

I had thought that SP1 corrected this.

[troma]

I thought I has SP1 installed, but I just got this 'view from bottom' problem.  First 5 mins of working in 2013.  How do I figure out if the SP is installed?  I type ABOUT but I don't see any info on the SP.

So what I'd like to know is: is this going to actually affect anything?  If I d-ref something out of this drawing, is it going to be junk?  Or is it just a viewcube glitch that I don't care about because I'm going to turn of the viewcube anyway?

Thanks!

[Jeff_M]

[troma]

Thanks Jeff.  I just crashed and did the CER and was told that I didn't have the SP, so that's confirmation.  (Actually, I didn't really crash.  I closed the program down myself, and then the Error Reporting window was there.  Seems to happen now & then.)

So the SP will be the first priority.

Any idea about the other question: does this glitch actually harm anything, or just make the viewcube look weird?

[Jeff_M]

I don't know whether it really affects anything in C3D. It may have an impact on importing Georeferenced images, but I still use 2012 as my main platform so never looked into it too much.