layer control/system variable

[scoutdog]

I have a two part question here.

When I open some drawings. The layer control seems to be haywire.

My example:

Another guy here worked on a drawing and had all the layers set up for the grading, site, landscape, etc.... When I opened it every viewport was missing critical layers that were on from the other user. This has happened so far on two different drawings. It has required what should be unneccesary cleanup to bring it back to the previous state using previous saved files and creating and exporting out saved layer states. Could this be a system variable since it seems to only be my computer that is doing it?

Visretain doesn't seem to be the culprit.

Second part:

Are the system variables set by drawing or by independant CAD stations? They look to be more on the side of drawing dependant.

Any thoughts

 

Thanks

Kris

[Strix]

I think the answer to that - as you can make profiles portable - is that some are drawing specific and some are user/machine specific

 

Is your machine running a PURGE upon opening your drawings?

 

I deliberately doctor my save button to include purge so I don't forget to do it

[Cad64]

So you're using Land Desktop 2006? Is the other guy using the same program and version?

[wannabe]

Are there Xref's on the drawing? Are these layers related to Xref's?

[scoutdog]

We are using Carlson 2008 with AutoCAD.

One of the drawings had Xrefs attatched and another had all entities in the one drawing. It seems to only be happening to drawings with multiple tabs.

thanks

kris

 

Edit: I get this as soon as I open CAD

 

 

Opening an AutoCAD 2004/LT 2004 format file.

Regenerating model.

 

AutoCAD Express Tools Copyright © 2002-2004 Autodesk, Inc.

; error: extra right paren on input

 

AutoCAD menu utilities loaded.

Carlson Software path set to> C:\Documents and Settings\kbeck\Application

Data\Carlson Software\Carlson2008\R17.1\USER\

INI file variable 'ftf_name' has a file/path value

('c:\scad2006\DATA\survcadd.fld')

which is invalid in current setup and will be ignored

 

Loading Carlson Software program files...

Carlson 2008 (build 070626)

Copyright Carlson Software 1989-2007. All rights reserved.extra right paren on

input :error#0

Current settings: Viewports=Vpfreeze, Block nesting level=Block

 

Autodesk DWG. This file is a TrustedDWG last saved by an Autodesk application

or Autodesk licensed application.

 

And a command is open

It is: select an object on the layer to be frozen or

 

Thanks