I've cross-posted this in the Civil 3D Forum.
I can't make this Attached Drawing "Active". If I select this drawing and then click "Activate", nothing happens. I've tried this in both 2014(No Service Pack) and 2015(Service Pack 1) with different drawing combinations.
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
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Solved by Alfred.NESWADBA. Go to Solution.
Solved by Alfred.NESWADBA. Go to Solution.
Hi,
I guess when you click onto the line with the drawing (within the dialog you showed in the screenshot) that you get the button "Activate" enabled. 😉
Another option is to start _MAPWSPACE to you get the Map Task Pane, go to tab "Map Explorer" and there you can select the drawing and activate it through a right click within the context menu.
HTH, - alfred -
Alfred,
"...when you click onto the line with the drawing (within the dialog you showed in the screenshot) that you get the button 'Activate' enabled."
Yes, but clicking on "Activate" did nothing but return me to the same "No" Screen. And right-clicking on the attached drawing showed "Activate" as greyed-out and only "Deactivate" being selectable.
Update:
After clicking(dozens of times) every imaginable command in Map Explorer, going down fruitless rabbit holes, and Googling every search term I could think of, the unexpected happened. I have no idea what I did or what changed, but the Active Column changed to "Yes":
OK, now we're on a roll. On to the next problem. Every attempt to Query in my Source Drawing fails:
I've tried pretty much everything in Location, Property, and Data. I have no idea what an SQL is, but I suppose I should click on that one too.
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
Hi,
can you open that attached drawing directly using command _RECOVER ... does that show any errors?
- alfred -
Alfred,
I just now tried RECOVER and this is what I got:
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
Alfred,
A thought just occurred to me. I've got both Current and Source Drawings open. Should I close the Source Drawing? Does that make a difference?
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
Hi,
>> Should I close the Source Drawing?
YES! 😉
Sorry that I have not thought about that.
- alfred -
Alfred,
OK, so I closed the Source Drawing and then tried RECOVER with same result:
Also, same result on Execute Query:
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
Hi,
if you are sure that you don't have the drawing now open (or referenced within any other currently open drawing) then please delete the file
Dudley_SPCS_2014.DWK
That is a lock file used by Map 3D to know which objects from a source drawing are used/currently access by which user.
But as long as that files exists the DWG file can not be opened directly in AutoCAD.
Another option, to be more safe:
a) create a copy of your Dudley_SPCS_2014.DWG
b) open Map 3D with a new drawing, attach the copied DWG
c) and try to query this one.
HTH, - alfred -
Alfred,
I searched both hard drives for the .DWK file, but nothing turned up.
I tried the "more safe" option, but got same results:
I'm missing some key here. I can't Query anything from a Source Drawing. My source drawing is pretty basic--no Xref's, just a few COGO points, Lines and Feature Lines. There's got to be some small setting somewhere that won't allow it.
I've attached my Current Drawing (Dudley_LDP1_2014) and the Source Drawing (Dudley_SPCS_2014).
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada
Hi,
with the Map 3D Query functionality you can only transform data that is based on plain AutoCAD.
The ADEQUERY command can't handle any application specific objects, so the AECC-objects can't be handled at all.
So nothing wrong with your drawings if that message is the only one you get (I have no chance now to look into your drawing, but with your message I think the answer is here and hopefully clear understandable).
- alfred -
Alfred,
"The ADEQUERY command can't handle any application specific objects, so the AECC-objects can't be handled at all."
I was afraid of that. I was hoping to transform C3D Objects from one Coordinate System to another by this method. Dreams die hard. Sigh.
Thanks for all your help, Alfred. I'm going to mark a couple of your posts in this thread as a "Solution" because you did give me a definitive answer.
Dave
Dave Stoll
Las Vegas, Nevada