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Purge can break contour styles
If a text style only exists in your drawing within a contour style, AutoCAD’s purge command considers it unused.
Workarounds: Create your contour stiyles using a text style that you know will never be purgeable.
First Appeared: Land Desktop 2 (2000)
Status as of 2008: Still reproducible
Status as of 2009: (unknown)
Short MTEXT entities cause sluggish performance with “thicken” selection preview
It appears that when PREVIEWEFFECT is set to a value which allows thickening (1 or 2) then short MTEXT entities observe this setting while larger MTEXT entities do not. Unfortunately, when moving the cursor over the entities that do observe the “Thicken” setting, performance noticeably hesitates.
Workarounds: Change PREVIEWEFFECT to 0
First Appeared: Land Desktop 2006
Status as [...]
“Error reading surf_head for VRT file” while generating profiles
After sampling existing ground, going to PROFILES / CREATE PROFILE / EXISTING PROFILE yields an error, “Error reading surf_head for VRT file”.
Workarounds: This bug seems to be drawing specific rather than project specific or user specific. There are several theories in Autodesks discussion groups. The only time that I encountered it, I was able to [...]