Properties Palette

[jmatte2004]

the properties palette started only showing the current properites for the drawing and not the properties  of the entity selected. what causes this i am using autocad civil 3d 2013.

jason

[tcorey]

Set PICKFIRST to 1.

[jmatte2004]

checked that it is set to 1 i changed it to 0 and then back to 1 and it still the same not working. thanks anymore ideas of what it could be.

jason

[tcorey]

Yeah, sorry, Pickfirst doesn't seem to affect this. Can you post your drawing?

[troma]

Quick thought: do you have two versions of C3D running? I've been confused before by looking at the properties palette of one, when I was running the other. Typically this can happen while we're updating from one version to another.
(Sorry, but sometimes it pays to ask the stupid questions!)

[jmatte2004]

yeah this is the drawing i am working with but it happens with any drawing.

jason

[jmatte2004]

no i only have one version and only have one instance running also.

[troma]

Have you tried:?
Close the palette & reopen it (Ctrl + 1)
Close the program & restart
Shut down the computer & restart

[tcorey]

It's a longshot, but you don't happen to have PROPOBJLIMIT set to 0?

[jmatte2004]

yeap did all that too!!!

[jmatte2004]

no its set to 25000

[tcorey]

Repair install.

[jmatte2004]

yeah i figured i was hoping not to do that.

[wfberry]

It takes less than 10 minutes.

Bill

[jmatte2004]

the simple reinstall didn't work. trying to do a repair.

[Jay_B]

Have you tried  Resetting AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 settings ?

[jmatte2004]

never recommend that to anyone else ever jay. that doesn't work and in fact it makes things worse not only does it not fix the problem now you have to re-configure your work enviroment also.

[Jay_B]

Sorry to hear that didn't help either, part of the instructions cover backing up any customized files prior to resetting.

Normally not the first thing I'd recommend but you'd already tried reinstall and repair which didn't seem to fix the issue either.

We've used the reset user settings a couple of times with success fixing various machine specific issues.

Have you also tried logging in as a new Windows User account to see if that makes any difference?

[jmatte2004]

haven't tried that but i think if i do a uninstall and a total re-install that would fix my problem

jason

[tmullins]

You don't have ProjectWise installed do you?

http://beingcivil.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/01/object-properties-missing-after-projectwise-is-insta...

This happened to a couple of our users and the link took care of it.