Neil,
Here is a little more detail on the Object Enabler situation. The Autodesk
Civil 3D 2005 Object Enabler is not supported on Autodesk Map 2005 for the
following reason.
As you know, Autodesk Map3D includes the Point and Surface functionality
Civil 3D. When you launch Autodesk Map you will see modules such as
Aeccbase15.dbx and AeccLand15.dbx load. There is an Object Enabler for Map
3D 2005 which will enable these objects in a non-Map 3D 2005 platform.
When we developed Autodesk Civil 3D 2005, the objects had to be versioned
and new objects were introduced. Therefore, if you run Civil 3D 2005, you
will see the modules AeccBase20.dbx and AeccLand20.dbx (and others) load.
Since AutoCAD Map 3D 2005 and Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 are both on the same
AutoCAD version, it is not possible to have multiple versions of the Civil
components loaded simultaneously. Therefore, if you try to open a Civil
3D drawing in Map 2005 you will get the following messages at the command
line:
Warning: Inhibiting simultaneous loading of multiple versions of application
An alternative would have been to update Autodesk Map 3D 2005 when Autodesk
Civil 3D 2005 was released in October. In this scenario, drawings in Map
would have been "upgraded" to the new version. It was viewed that this
would not be desirable between major releases of Autodesk Map. For the next
release cycle, Autodesk Map and Autodesk Civil 3D will share the same Civil
components and the OE will work on both products.
Hope this helps clarify the situation.
Daniel Philbrick
Autodesk, Inc.
"Neil Bondy" wrote in message
news:41bf9504_1@newsprd01...
> My only concern with no object enabler is if the proxygraphics system
> variable isn't set to 1. The only other ability the object enabler gives
> you is grip editing of certain objects. Other than that, I realize that
> even with the object enabler, C3D objects aren't much different that
proxies
> in what you can do with them in other versions of AutoCAD.
>
> Basically, I've got a client wanting to start designing in C3D, and hand
> that design off to their drafters using Map 3d, but they don't like
getting
> the error message about proxies when they open up the drawings in Map 3d.
> They just want to make sure the two work together as seemlessly as
possible.
>
>
> "James Wedding" wrote in message
> news:41bef91a$1_2@newsprd01...
> > Going around the question, what would you like to do to the C3D objects
> that
> > proxies don't cover?
> >
> > --
> > James Wedding, P.E.
> > Technology Manager
> > Associate
> > Jones & Boyd, Inc.
> > Dallas, TX
> > XP/2 on P4-3.4/1G
> > LDT2005+C3D2005
> >
> >
>
>
