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Viewing AEC objects when opening a CAD file created in Civil3D (or similar)

I often need to open a CAD file which has AEC objects (surface labels, spot heights, manholes etc).  I don't need to edit or do anything to those AEC items, I only need to make 2D edits to the sheet (text boxes, add circles, add poly lines etc - real basic stuff that AutoCAD for Mac can do) and replot the drawing. 

BUT AutoCAD for MAC (2025) does not even show the AEC objects - just a clumsy AECC object box in the place of rendering the file useless  - meaning I can't even view the CAD file, let alone make a NON AEC edit.

 

There surely must be an object viewer enabler - I have achieved this on AutoCAD (or AutoCAD LT) previously - but damned if I can find it for the Mac version. Seems like a fundamental thing for Autodesk to provide so that people can at least view files with AEC objects in them.

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