Civil 3D Solution Tips

[CAD Panacea]

If you would like to automate the enabling or disabling of the Civil 3D setting shown in the dialog below, read on.

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Here is some lisp code you can put in one of your startup routines. This example disables the checkbox shown. Change the last “0” to a “1” to check this box. You would only need to do this once, so no need to do it for each document load. Tested with Civil 3D 2019 and 2022.

(vl-registry-write
  (strcat "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\" 
          (vlax-machine-product-key) 
          "\\Profiles\\" 
          (getvar "cprofile") 
          "\\Preferences\\AECBase80")
     "DraftWarningSymbol"
      0
)

With this knowledge, you can probably figure out how to control other items on the AEC Editor tab

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