Importing SHP file for Contours - Erros given when saving file

[james.martinez5KLN4]

Hello,

I am getting an error when trying to save my drawing.

Create a new drawing and ran mapimport command to bring in the contour .shp file. The elevation data showed as 0 in the properties. Save and named file, closed drawing.

Opened new drawing file, went to planning and analysis. In the Task Pane attached the drawing, zoomed extents, data contours are shown, ran query to import the elevation data. Everything look good at this point. 

Attached aerial and everything is lined up nicely.  

Now I go to save the drawing file and I get an error.

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>> I am getting an error when trying to save my drawing.

This is not an error message, it's a warning, nothing more or less. (and yes, the symbol makes it easy to think it is an error, totally understanding this).

The warning is: when you save the file, then open this file from a different workstation (which might not have access to the connected data) or you have opened the dwg-file with plain AutoCAD, or AutoCAD LT or any other vertical product like AutoCAD Architecture, Mechanical, ... then you might run into troubles when you edit these entities.

As long as you are accessing this dwg-file from this workstation and with your Map3D (or Civil3D) then you can ignore this warning.

If you don't need to keep the connection alive you can disconnect the connected dwg-files, then you get the entities you queried from the source-dwg as "stand-alone" entities without any dependence.

- alfred -

[ChicagoLooper · Accepted solution]

You can save your drawing with or without that popup message. (That popup won’t interfere with SAVE or SAVE AS.)

To stop that annoying message from appearing, detach your source drawing. Right-click your attached drawing that listed under the ‘Drawings’ section of the Map Explorer tab of the Task Pane then select the Detach option. 

[james.martinez5KLN4]

Hello guys,

Thanks for getting back to me and letting me know what that message is all about. Was worried I may loose my work when I close the drawing.

Thanks,

JM