If you are a Civil 3D user and you see a strange icon next to your cursor during certain operations, you are not alone. It seems to be an issue in Civil 3D 2019, and it looks like a tiny 3D button below and to the right of the crosshair. It apparently appears during manual Point creation. See example below:
Enlarged image of unknown cursor icon
Note: This is not related to the documented Cursor Badges. Autodesk has been made aware of the issue and there is no fix as of July 2018. Perhaps we will see if fixed in an update or future release.
Thanks RK. I was wondering about that.
I’ve also seen remnants of them left behind during a command. The cursor moves on, but one of the little icons was left behind with each click until the screen was populated with a whole colony of them.