UPDATE: Autodesk is aware of this issue and can reproduce the problem CaseNo:10466148, This only happens when you ahve your properties palette open.
This is a difficult one to explain. So I have made a screencast to show you here
But basically when selecting something that is a civil 3d object with a “Left-Right” or “right-left” selection and you drag your mouse outside the autocad window (say the start menu). Autocad no longer is the current program. Requiring the user to select the autocad icon on start menu. Or click on the top bar to regain focus..
Very frustrating as my commands often have to be done twice as a result. OR more often then not a complicated selection during a command that may have taken a little while is lost.
Additionally once this has occurred once. A left-right selection on the object without even dragging outside will continue to allow the program to lose focus!
See example file and explanation below so you can recreate problem for yourselves.
I select the complex 3d polyline as the trimming line, then when I go to trim the lines. IF I accidentally hover over the 3d polyline I am using to trim it just freezes for up to 5 minutes.
If I turn off live preview I don’t get the error?
The more complex the 3d polyline the longer the wait!
Well after some basic investigation I have found the problem.
Overlapping surfaces that both have contours displayed will cause freezing when osnaps is turned on.
Download the example file here – onsnaps-freeze1, see image below for explanation. Try and draw a polyline over the top of the overlapping area with onsnaps turned on
I can confirm that this happens in both Civil 3D 2014 and 2015. With 2015 recovering slighltly faster than 2014. say 3-5 minutes instead of 10 – 15minutes
Object Description Does Not Carry Though Data Shortcuts
The Description is blank when the object is data shortcutted. I would expect to see the description typed in the source drawing in the data shortcutted object
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