Autodesk Vehicle Tracking Warning

[alexka]

I have some drawings that was saved in Civil 3D 2019 with Vehicle Tracking, and when I try to open the drawings in Civil 3D 2018, I get the following warning: 

Is there a system variable that would allow me to suppress the warning window so that it doesn't come up every time I open the drawing?

If not, I know that Vehicle Tracking can be purged from a drawing using the command PURGEVEHICLETRACKING, but I have lots of drawings, and I would like to automate the purging process using script rather than going through each drawing one at a time. Again, I can't figure out how to suppress the warning window through script.

I was looking around the forum, and it seems like others have had this problem with Vehicle Tracking but couldn't find a solution. I just wanted to reach out again and see if anyone has any thoughts or suggestions that I could try.

Thanks.

[cwr-pae]

Look in to using ACAD.lsp set to run when ever a drawing is opened or ACADdoc.lsp which always runs when a drawing is opened. If you don't want to run PURGEVEHICLETRACKING on every drawing, the the command can be commented out when not desired to run.

[AlmasSuljevic · Accepted solution]

The message you are getting indicates your scenario where file is saved in newer version that had Vehicle Tracking 2019 installed. Please see following link for possible solution.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Error-...

If you have Vehicle Tracking 2018 installed on your computer you may want to install 2018.2 updates. See Autodesk Vehicle Tracking 2018.2 Readme and Hotfix Radme. 

If you don't have Vehicle Tracking you may want to use @Anonymous's suggestion or Export objects to AutoCAD.

I hope this helps.

[alexka]

@AlmasSuljevic , I think the only two solutions are to either update the version of Vehicle Tracking as you indicated or run the PURGEVEHICLETRACKING command one drawing at a time.

Exporting the drawing to AutoCAD as described in the Autodesk article isn't really a good solution since it would convert all Civil 3D objects to regular AutoCAD objects.

Thanks for looking into it.

[tyronebk]

My "solution" to this annoying dialog is a little app that runs in the background and closes the dialog whenever it appears (which is once for the active drawing and once for every attached xref, which is a lot of dialogs).

I originally went with a scripted PURGEVEHICLETRACKING route, but found that command corrupted about 20% of the drawings I ran it on.

[JamesMaeding]

@AlmasSuljevic 

Excuse me, that is no solution at all. You are telling us the nag is there unless we ride the Autodesk version chase train, or do some purge command that only works if a drawing is open?

This is a product killer! CAD managers will avoid this thing like the plague, doesn't Autodesk get it?

[Anonymous]

@tyronebk , do you have the app available anywhere for sharing?

I'd find it very helpful

Thanks

[tyronebk]

Unfortunately I don't. It is part of a larger code base and would take too much time to extract and share it on its own. I can share parts of the code if you are trying to create your own, but that's about all I'd have time for.

I believe Autodesk fixed this annoy behavior in newer releases of Civil 3D. I can't confirm though as we are discouraging use of Vehicle Tracking internally, so I no longer have it installed.

[Anonymous]

Thanks anyway, at least I have learnt about the PURGEVEHICLETRACKING command from this thread so I can use that more in future

[vandenoosterkamp]

Why isn't autodesk reacting here?

Another feature of their software that slows us down. Not a tiny bit but literally extra days are wasted because of this terrible behaviour combined with (2018) again a version in wich publish is not working AT ALL.

I'm in the process of changing the version of 60 drawings. Back in the days when I wasn't forced to have 1 file per drawing because of VAULT updating everything and publisg 60 pdf's would take 5 minutes.

Now I am wasting 2 days on it and it's getting worse with each version.

Now

[wwolak]

Has this been addressed yet, this cost users a ton of time to hit ok to this stupid message! Has Autodesk done anything to fix this and permanently come up with a solution? if they would like i can send them thousands of drawings and they can go thru them all and type in "purgevehicletracking" or if they would like they can print all of my drawings from the sheet set manager and they can hit "ok" when it processes the files and I have to babysit it. When working between companies not everybody has the same version either so you can't constantly upgrade, do they know how projects work and how tight schedules are????????????

[Anonymous]

The worst thing is, if anyone saves the drawing with Vehichle Tracking loaded, it saves the metadata that triggers the error message - even if they don't run any Vehicle Tracking commands.
My solution was to install AutoCAD 2019 (because I don't think anyone I work with is using a later version yet) but that's not really a real answer

[e.otani]

Hi, is it possible to ask for the app to disable the vehicle tracking warning notification? Thank you.

[david.scharlau73UKH]

@tyronebk I'd like to see what you have so I can try to make something work.

[Hammer.john.j]

typical stupid autodesk versioning issues, "everyone needs to be on 2023!!!"  "install the latest version"  why so you can corrupt basic functionality that worked 15yrs ago.  guys are the worst, fix your program.  get on the version gravy train.

[vandenoosterkamp]

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@wwolak wrote:

Has this been addressed yet

Of course not. We can only pray that one day BIM360 and Vault are no longer used and BricsCad comes up with a Civil 3D alternative.

I strongly advise at every project I work for NOT to use BIM360 or Vault.

[mbloswick]

This notification is killing me.

Due to client requirements, we are working in C3D 2018. I am not working on anything that involves vehicle tracking. Others doing more of the design work are. Purging the vehicle tracking data from the files is not an option. But I swear that every time I open a drawing to work, every Xref that loads brings up the notification, and it takes far too much time to click through them all...

I'm doomed...

[david.scharlau73UKH]

I run nightly plots and this popup dialog stops that's process from working.  Equally as annoying is opening a file, then needing  to go help a colleague, only to come back and see the file barely opened because of the dialog box.  I downloaded a mouse auto clicking software and have it automatically click the ok button.  Obviously not an answer, but a workaround that has been working for me. I don't have to be there to click every time the box pops up.  

[JimsTools]

To automatically click OK on the popup (and many others), I use a program called ClickOff. https://download.cnet.com/ClickOff/3000-2072_4-10041321.html

Works great.