Hi there,

Common Mistakes while creating a loft include:

The polyline fails as a path because it does not maintain tangency between the arc segment and the straight segment at the transition between FormB and FormC

You can try to put in a tangency constrain to enforce tangency.

According to AutoDesk Knowledge base:

Create a 3D solid or surface by lofting a profile through a set of two or more cross-section profiles.

Hope this solves your problem 🙂

Hi there,

The problem can be solved using the following steps:

http://screencast.com/t/N6S0quCL

Hope this helps.

Hi there,

Cause:

CTRL+C / CTRL+V are windows Commands and sometimes a problem happens between the SendMessageToWindow Event in Windows and between the AutoCAD recieving the Command

Solution

1)Close and reopn the file

2)Try running “Audit” (“Y” to fix errors) then “Purge” command to clear everything

3)Try”WBLOCK” Command

If this doesn’t work ,

According to AutoCad this is caused due to non-essential data from DWG files that have become bloated while copying and pasting from DWGs containing DGN linetypes.

you can find the fix here:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/downloads/caas/downloads/content/autocad-C2-AE-dgn-hotfix.html

Which will prevent future occurrences of the file bloat issue from occurring.

Hope this helps.

Hi there

Running Multiple Instances on the Same machine does NOT “eat up” 2 licenses, Yes AutoCad is smart enough to recognize this is the same machine,

If you would like to open multiple drawings on the same machine you should be fine 🙂

Hope this helps

Hi there Conor,

According to AutoCad Knowledge Base you can follow the following procedure to change your license server:

1. You will need to setup a license server.  Please review the steps below:
   • Quick Start: Setting up a license server on Windows

    

   • Quick Start: Setting up a license server on Mac

    

   • Quick Start: Setting up a licensing server on Linux

    

    

1. You will need to get a new license file for your products. Our license files are coded to MAC addresses of the new computer See: General Licensing: Requesting a network license online

1. Configure LMTOOLS for the new license.

1. Update your deployments to point to the new server.

1. Update your client computers and make sure your existing installations point to the new server. See: General Licensing: ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE environment variable location in Windows registry.
   • Right-click the My Computer icon.

    

   • Click the Advanced tab.

    

   • Click Environment Variables.

    

   • Under the System Variables window, click New.

    

   • In the Variable name field enter ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE

    

   • In the Variable value field enter @YOUR COMPUTER NAME

    

   • Click Okay.

    

    

1. You can also update your client computers by editing the licpath.lic files in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\

1. Retire the old license server.

Hope this helps 🙂

Hope this helps 🙂

Hi there,

Cause:
The PICKDRAG system variable has been updated in AutoCAD 2012 to include a new option. Traditionally (before AutoCAD 2012), you had to choose between two methods for specifying a selection window. When PICKDRAG is set to 0, you create a selection window by picking (and releasing) to specify the first point and then picking (and releasing) to specify the second point. If PICKDRAG is set to 1, you pick the first point and continue holding down the mouse button as you drag. Releasing the mouse button specifies the second point of the selection window. A new option in AutoCAD 2012, PICKDRAG = 2, combines both of these behaviors so you don’t have to choose!

Solution:
“PICKDRAG = 0” in the command line

Hope this helps 🙂

Hi there,

This is actually a pretty long question to answer, there’s actually a very good tutorial discussing just that:

http://cadsetterout.com/autocad-tutorials/converting-ellipses-to-arcs/

but anyhow, follow the following procedure:

Steps:

– Use proper Osnap.

– changing Pellipse system variable to 1. ( this inforce autocad to draw ellipse as a Polyline.

– Now you can get center points from the poly ellipse shape.

For detailed instructions please visit:
http://cadsetterout.com/autocad-tutorials/converting-ellipses-to-arcs/

Hope this helps. 😉

Hi there,

Error message:

Solution:

Data may be published by administrators as well as by authors. The difference in publishing by the two roles is that there may be widget errors when data is published by authors. This does not concern the connected and displayed data – it might only effect the graphical user interface with widget errors.

To avoid widget errors, you can publish an empty template project with the admin, which then acts as a template and can be integrated into other projects.In this way everything could then be properly republished by authors.

Hope this helps.

Hello

Sometimes this is caused by corrupted setup files.

I suggest you try to install using the offline installer instead from Autodesk Virtual Agent here:
http://autodesk.creativevirtual15.com/autodesk/bot.html?isJSEnabled=1&businessArea=Root.Front%20Desk&startContext=Root.Front%20Desk

Hope this solves your problem.

Good luck,