I purchased QCad Pro to be able to read and print AutoCAD drawings from clients, which are typically Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams with 50 or so layers. Some of the drawings clearly have large numbers of entities missing. If I open the same drawing using DraftSight the drawing is complete. I researched the problem and found that all the missing drawing elements are of a type called an "ACAD PROXY ENTITY". In order to use QCAD to view the drawing I have to first open it in DraftSight and save it as an AutoCAD R12 drawing. Unfortunately, I can't post the original drawings because they're confidential, but a Google search for ACAD PROXY ENTITY returns a few thousand hits on the subject. Apparently they can't be deleted, not even in AutoCAD.
Is there any way to make these proxy objects visible in QCAD?
Thanks
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ACAD Proxy Entities Don't Appear
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Re: ACAD Proxy Entities Don't Appear
Proxy entities represent non-standard entities usually produced by specialized products. Such entities might represent walls, windows, doors or screws, etc.rsteaples wrote:Is there any way to make these proxy objects visible in QCAD?
QCAD has currently no support for displaying proxy entities. It might be possible to display proxy entities which reference data for visualization in the future. If other products can visualize the proxy entities in your drawings, there's a good chance that the proxy entities do reference data for visualization.