LT 2010 crashes during opening of drawing

[drnorris]

We are running LT 2010.

I have one drawing that crashes Autocad while the drawing is trying to open.

The drawing is about 13 Meg.

The crash occurs when it gets to the regen step.

The program does not continue and it is necessary to go to the Task Manager.

Autocad shows as not responding.

Performance shows 50 - 100% CPU usage.

The task must be ended.

CPU usage drops to

The recovery utilities say that everything is OK and make no difference.

It is doing the same thing on another PC.

About 10 Meg of the file is one block.

I can open that block separately without a problem.

Thanks

Don

[Glen1980]

When you say blocks do you mean external references? If so have you tried purging and auditing all of the x-ref files.

 

Was the drawing created by you, someone in your company or an outside source? If it was by someone outside of your company go back to them and ask them to purge and audit their drawing to get it back down to a smaller size and to otherwise look at their drawing.

 

13MB is pretty big for an LT drawing but shouldn't be too much of a problem for your machine. My old Dell word processor managed to open a 16MB site plan, it took a while and was a bit clunky but it still worked. Other than that I'm stuck without you uploading the drawing somewhere so we can get a look at it.

[drnorris]

The existing drawing was made by me. The import is a revised floorplan provided by the building owner. That floor plan had all of the xref's removed and lots of other blocks and layers removed before we inserted it into our drawing. It started as 18M and I got it down to about 10M.

The failure occurs during the opening of the drawing when it does a regeneration of the model.

I cannot get it opened to purge anything else.

Don