topic ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems in AutoCAD Forum

ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:56:33 GMT

Hello,

I've received and drawing with some ACAD PROXY ENTITIES and i see i cant do anything with them: no deleting, no moving.... I exploded them but the entity is still there. I can't delete.

Anyone has had the problem too? Can them be delete or something?

thanks.

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

john.vellek — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:58:54 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

When you first open the drawing, a popup box shows that there are Proxy objects. If you look in the list you will see the applications that were used to create the proxies. Can you share that list? You can install object enablers to better work with the entities.

If you share the file I can take a look at it for you too.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

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cadffm — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:25:47 GMT

"Anyone has had the problem too? Can them be delete or something?"

This is determined by the application manufacturer.

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

pendean — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:56:02 GMT

Ask the person that send you the file(s) to "export to autocad" and send you that new file(s).

Proxy Entities show up when you do not have the correct AutoCAD variant the file creator used to create the drawing.

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:57:11 GMT

Hello john.vellek

Here you have an example.

Thanks.

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:59:23 GMT

Hello pendean,

So you are saying I could not do anything, right?

Thanks.

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

john.vellek — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:33:28 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

When I open the file I see that the geometry is indeed a set of Proxy objects created in Civil 3D.

So I installed the Civil 3D object enabler and did an Exporttoautocad.

Please check the attached file.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:30:21 GMT

Hello john.vellek,

I downloaded your file and i still see acad_proxy_entities and i can not do anything with them. So you downloaded a object enabler, and that tool is specific for each program?

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

john.vellek — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:39:27 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Yes, they list as Proxy objects but you can explode them and they will turn into regular objects.

Yes, you can download object enablers for each specific version of AutoCAD that you are using from your Account page.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

m_latz — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 21:01:58 GMT

For the sake of the completeness, it must be mentioned that it is also possible to explode the proxy entities with ObjectARX (small program) without the need of the different object enabler.

regards

Markus

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

pendean — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 21:24:01 GMT

@m_latz wrote:

For the sake of the completeness, it must be mentioned that it is also possible to explode the proxy entities with ObjectARX (small program) without the need of the different object enabler

Or just use AECTOACAD command to do the same, or the DWGTRUECONVERT ool found in the always-free DWGTRUEVIEW software from Autodesk.

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

m_latz — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 22:41:25 GMT

I did not know that I can explode proxy entities with DWG convert from DWG TrueView.

And I just take a look at DWG TrueView 2019 and DWG convert 2019.

Can you give me please a hint were I can find that option ?

regards

Markus

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

pendean — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:10:32 GMT

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

m_latz — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:14:58 GMT

I know that, but where is the option to explode proxy entities ?

regards

Markus

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

kkuldeep142 — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 03:51:52 GMT

It may be too late for you guys.

You can save drawing as dxf format and all entities will become 3d polylines.

Hope It helped you.

Cheers.

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

william.polhemus — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:40:03 GMT

And now it's even LATER, but no, this is not universally true. I have a file that includes Object entities created by something called CloudWorx, and saving it out to DXF does absolutely nothing. The Object entity is still there and still prevents binding the XREF to the original DWG file.

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

m_latz — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 13:39:35 GMT

You can try to install the CADWorx object enabler, that should work. You can download from the manufacturer here:

CADWorx_Object_Enabler_2020_R2.zip for AutoCAD 20xx

regards

Markus

Re: ACAD PROXY ENTITY Problems

pendean — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 13:59:02 GMT

@william.polhemus wrote:

And now it's even LATER, but no, this is not universally true. I have a file that includes Object entities created by something called CloudWorx, and saving it out to DXF does absolutely nothing. The Object entity is still there and still prevents binding the XREF to the original DWG file.

https://leica-geosystems.com/en-us/products/laser-scanners/software/leica-cloudworx/leica-cloudworx-autocad