Civil 3d 2012
I used 3d orbit, it crashed. My points, point groups and newly updated description keys are gone.
I have looked at all my backup files etc, and they do not want to display.
please advise?
Have you tried the drawing recovery manager (command DRAWINGRECOVERY?)
If you have an autocad .BAK file, it needs to be renamed to .DWG before you can open it.
You can save this drawing as a template and it SHOULD save you descriptoin keys (that is not a feature I use alot, so I would try it first)
When I send Civil 3d drawings outside the office I will first send just the Civil 3d file, if they have the correct Object Enablers it should display correctly.
If I find they are having difficulty, I use the EXPORTTOAUTOCAD command. (also found under FILE-EXPORT menu) This saves you Civil 3d file as plain AutoCAD entities.
Hope this helps!