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    Default ObjectARX Enabler

    How do you know which type of enabler you need to install in order to see the appropriate proxy graphics?

    I should note that I know which proxy is causing the problem - it shows up as a rectangle with an "x" through it. I just don't know which program created it.

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    Default Re: ObjectARX Enabler

    That's a good question. I presume you cannot ask the original author of the drawing? If not, can you post the drawing with nothing but the proxy object(s)?

    P.S. Are you related to Ed?
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    Default Re: ObjectARX Enabler

    Hit me with your best shot.

    And, yes, I'm his daughter.
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    Default Re: ObjectARX Enabler

    Is your PROXYNOTICE set to 1?

    proxy.png

    My guess would be Architectural Desktop, but I'm not too familiar with its application names, so that may not be it. I'm sure someone will come along to confirm or correct.
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    Default Re: ObjectARX Enabler

    That was pretty easy... it is RText which is an Express Tool. Get Ed to install Express Tools on your computer (and tell him "hi" from Bob Bell!).
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    Default Re: ObjectARX Enabler

    Quote Originally Posted by RobertB View Post
    That was pretty easy... it is RText which is an Express Tool. Get Ed to install Express Tools on your computer (and tell him "hi" from Bob Bell!).
    Although... why anybody is actively using RText now is beyond me... aside from the XRefs feature (why Fields doesn't have that yet is also beyond me.)
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    Default Re: ObjectARX Enabler

    Quote Originally Posted by RobertB View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by RobertB
    That was pretty easy....
    Although... why anybody is actively using RText now is beyond me... aside from the XRefs feature (why Fields doesn't have that yet is also beyond me.)
    Talking to yourself again huh...?

    Back to the topic, I didn't get the proxy notice about the RTEXT since mine was loaded and it didn't occur to me that this was RTEXT, for reasons you mentioned above...
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    Default Re: ObjectARX Enabler

    Well, the express tools solved one problem - thanks for that.

    However, it appears that I have another proxy hiding in the drawing that I can't find. The proxy info that pops up when I open the drawing tells me that the missing application is aecbbldsrv40. There's not a lot of info to be found by doing a simple search about this particular application. Aec is usually an autocad architecture prefix, am I correct?

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    Default Re: ObjectARX Enabler

    Quote Originally Posted by h.jobe View Post
    However, it appears that I have another proxy hiding in the drawing that I can't find. The proxy info that pops up when I open the drawing tells me that the missing application is aecbbldsrv40. There's not a lot of info to be found by doing a simple search about this particular application. Aec is usually an autocad architecture prefix, am I correct?
    You need to install the object enablers for both Architectural and then MEP. You need to install Arch first, then MEP.

    AecbBldSrv40 is part of the MEP vertical which is based on the Architectural vertical.

    However, you need to be running a version of AutoCAD that matches or exceeds the version of the original MEP file (4.0 is pretty old, 5.5 is 2008's version). MEP objects are usually upgraded each release and are not downwards compatible, despite the 3-year cycle for DWG formats.
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    Default Re: ObjectARX Enabler

    Quote Originally Posted by rkmcswain View Post
    Talking to yourself again huh...?
    Um... yes. (No! Bob, don't answer that!) Shut up!
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