Hyperlinks Make AutoCAD Crash

[CalebH]

Ah silly me, of course.

 

No such luck there, same problem. I'm really quite certain it has to do with the server, as talked about in this thread:

 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/CAD-Managers/HYPERLINK-command-Hangs/td-p/3897745

 

Unfortunately I am having difficulty locating in my server where I need to make changes to make it work. Is there some way to see where AutoCAD is looking? Our server is rather convoluted, and messy as a result of many different IT heads coming and going. Unfortunately, without access to our server, I'm not really sure if anyone can help with this. I'm currently working with our local head of IT to find my way around the server and see if I can get something working.

[ReMark]

So what you are saying is that if the two documents were on your hard drive and not on the server you could create a working hyperlink with no problem?

[CalebH]

So what you are saying is that if the two documents were on your hard drive and not on the server you could create a working hyperlink with no problem?

 

Close, I am only creating hyperlinks from objects in model space to certain layouts in paper space. If I am connected to the network, launching the HYPERLINK command causes a crash. If I am disconnected from the network launching the HYPERLINK command causes a few seconds of thinking and then it works fine. All the documents I am working with are stored on my local C Drive, the problem is simply being connected to the network. It has nothing to do with where the documents are located.

[ReMark]

Is the drawing going to be eventually uploaded to the network?

 

I can't say I've heard of anyone creating model space hyperlinks to paper space layouts in the same drawing. How many layouts are there?

[CalebH]

Yes, I keep copies of the drawing on both my machine, and on the network, but I work on the local copy.

 

"I can't say I've heard of anyone creating model space hyperlinks to paper space layouts in the same drawing. How many layouts are there?"

 

Really? Seems like a pretty simple feature. There are 4 layouts. However, this drawing is a sample I am creating to hopefully represent what we can do with much larger drawings encompassing a great deal more data.

[ReMark]

Four layouts? That's it? Heck, I thought there were about 40 or 400.

[CalebH]

Hahaha, yeah, small drawing. Like I said, it's a sample to see if we really wanna go this route with this project.

[ReMark]

What type of drawing is this?

 

If I couldn't find my way around a drawing that had just four layouts I'd think I had chosen the wrong career.

[CalebH]

What type of drawing is this?

 

If I couldn't find my way around a drawing that had just four layouts I'd think I had chosen the wrong career.

 

Like I said, it's a sample. It's merely an attempt to see if we want to go this route.

 

This drawing is of a single small building, a simple layout, nothing extraordinarily detailed or anything. However, inside of the drawing is the labeling and location of every network location: phones, computers, printers, faxes, etc... that we have installed there. The drawing also contains detailed rack elevations for all of our cabling scheme in the building, with labels in place on the patch panels that correspond to the physical location of the drop in the building. The goal is to hyperlink the physical drop location in the building drawing to the layout that contains whatever patch panel it may be run to, and from there to whatever switch it is run to.

 

I work for an IT company in a remote location that has many, many systems even more remote than our main headquarters. Our main goal with this project is to create a document, a "Physical Network Location" that contains this information on all of our various properties to decrease the time spent in the field troubleshooting problems. The more info we have on file, and the easier it is to access, the quicker we can fix problems as they arise.

[ReMark]

The field techs aren't taught how to read a set of drawings? Not sure I'd trust them even with hyperlinks.

[CalebH]

The field techs aren't taught how to read a set of drawings? Not sure I'd trust them even with hyperlinks.

 

The field techs, will read the drawings when they're in the field, and that's ok that you wouldn't trust them with hyperlinks, because you don't have to!

I would hope I would know who can and can't work with them, and would assist them with the job accordingly.

[ReMark]

Thanks for the follow up. Let us know how your hyperlink experiment goes. Good luck.