Contour lines

[NEWMAN1006]

sitting at my computer i open a DWG and the contour lines are not there

 

Sitting a different computer they do show up

 

Any ideas?

 

and yes the layer is on on both dwg's when i open them

 

Thanks

[ReMark]

One computer sucks? Maybe that is overstating the case but could it be a graphics related problem? Is there a difference between the two computers?

[NEWMAN1006]

Lol everything sucks here but as far as I know they are the same crappy computers

[ReMark]

So you have only two crappy computers that you can open the drawing on?

 

Since the drawing probably needs to be edited then I would switch seats and work on the computer that allows you to see the contours. You can worry about the "why" of the problem after you have met your deadline.

[NEWMAN1006]

Ok Thanks and have a good day

[ReMark]

If you'd be willing to attach the drawing to a post I'd have a look at it although I've not running Civil 3D and more importantly my computer isn't crap...yet.

[Murph_map]

Are the contours civil3d objects? Are you opening in C3D on both computers, and the same version? Or are they polylines and you are using plain AutoCAD?

[RobDraw]

How about an XREF?

[BIGAL]

Like everybody else if you open a civ3d dwg on a plain Autocad contours will not appear, download Proxy objects enabler from Autodesk if this is the case.

[NEWMAN1006]

Thanks everyone I tried to download the DWG and then Zip it but its still to large

 

The office solution was to just change seats until I was done with the DWG.

[alanjt]

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