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In the month of November 2019, we received many phone calls that AutoCAD Electrical software started generating a message ““Unable to communicate with the Project Database Service”. A second strange error message also started appearing that read “No selection, Specifies the current thickness”.

Here is a quick set of commands to add a surface to an existing solid part. We will start with a simple 6X10X1 inch box:

In Inventor 2019 Part files, there is an “Annotate” tab where you can add Model Based Definitions. The commands include Leaders, Hole Notes, Feature Control Frames, Surface Texture Symbols that can be placed in any 3D view.