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try to make a simple surface in 3D, this is what appears on the command line
"Unknown command "AECCCREATESURFACE". Press F1 for help." This is true in all
the 3D commnads
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This link doesn't work anymore. I'm having the same problem with Civil 3D commands not working and I'm positive I'm opening and using AutoCAD Civil 3D. Please help!
I can't find it on the Autodesk site. They may have pulled it down. What version are you working in?
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Nothing occurs to me at the moment. I'll poke around and post if I come up with anything. Have you tried the standard - Restart the program and\or reboot?
I'm about to leave. Post what you find and I'll take a look 2morrow.
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Oops, i'm so conditioned to seeing messag boxes come up for missing shape files or xrefs that I failed to read the following one carefully: "This drawing was created with a newer version of Civil 3D. All entities created by Civil 3D within the drawing are in a proxy state. Additionally, all commands, settings, and displays of Civil 3D are disabled for this drawing."
I read that this can be caused by orphaned files so I removed the AECC points in the drawing, recovered, audited; all without resolving the issue. It seems to be simply that I need to contact the drawing owner and ask them to save it as version 2010 from a newer version.
Thanks again for the help.
What Matt said. Although if you have the version that the file was created in. It may be time to install it. That will save you the most headaches.
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I have had this same problem. I have several machines running Civil 3D 2009 on Windows 7. After a clean install install of Civil 3D 2009 on Windows 7, none of the Civil commands work.
Solution:
Go to Options, Files, Support File Search Path
Add a new search path to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\AxUi
Save the setting, close and reopen Civil 3D 2009.
Thanks for posting that answer. Hopefully the OP of someone else having this problem will verify it works on other systems. Then the post can be marked as accepted to help in the future.
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I am having the same problem. I ve been at my new job for about a month. They bought a brand new computer great processor, great video card, etc. it has civil 3d 2009 and civil 3d land desktop companion, along with some other survey software. My Civil 3d 2009 worked for a day or so. fatal error caused it to shut down. upon re-opening civil, it lost all the functionality of civil and is basically vanilla autocad. I put in a help desk and the IT guy (he is an expert with computers in general, but he is not a cad guru) reloaded it. It worked great for another day or two, then it shut down again. i opened it back up and all the civil commands were gone. "unknown commands" for surfaces, survey, toolspace, etc. all of it. The IT guy reloaded it and told me to just keep it up. but cad shuts down sometimes, for whatever error. can someone help me. I heard that our cad guru quit about a week before i got here. please help
Welcome to the forums. It sounds like you might be having profile trouble. I'll start by asking how you are starting Civil 3D and how you're opening a drawing.
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well. I read the posts above, along with multiple posts on other forums. so first thing i did was delete my shortcut and went to the program file and made another shortcut, hoping it was that easy. As far as opening the drawing i just use the pull down.
Can you share what is in your icon? I'm looking for the target field.
This is want mine from 2012 looks like; "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\acad.exe" /ld "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012\AecBase.dbx" /nologo /p "C3D Imperial 2.0" /t "G:\Cadlib\Template\_RCHD C3D Imperial 2012.dwt" /w "Civil 3D 2.0"
THIS link explains the Icon Switches.
It's often better to customize the Icon so that it opens the exact profile, DWT and Workspace you want. This can avoid problems similar to those you're having. Once you have one that works. Back it up.
I can't definitively say that it's a Profile problem in your case. But that's the first thing that comes to mind when someone says Civil opens like it's basic AutoCAD.
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Thank you for responding so quickly. here we go.
Target:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009\acad.exe" /p "<<Unnamed Profile>>"
Start in:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009\UserDataCache\"
OK. Open your Options dialog to check your default profile names are the same in 2009. Go to the Profiles tab.
You can start by changing <<Unnamed Profile>> to <<C3D_Imperial>> or your equivalent (or C3D_Metric if appropriate). Let me know if that gets you anywhere.
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