cjh111 Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 First time, so be gentle. Whilst working on a small 2d iso drawing suddenly cad just freezes for no particular reason, and i get the not responding message etc. I have left it for an hour but the only way out is to close down auto cad. I have tried audit, purge, recover and saving as a block but none of these work. Any more ideas pleeease? :( Quote
Raggi_Thor Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 Welcome, that happens sometimes on some computers, it's impossible to tell the reason without more info. The first thing I look at if AutoCAD crashes is the setting for virtual memory, Control Panel / System / Advanced / ... Quote
cjh111 Posted November 22, 2007 Author Posted November 22, 2007 Thanks but I have since worked on larger drawings with no problem. It just seems to be this drawing. Quote
Tiger Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 copy everything out of the drawing and paste into a new drawing? Quote
cjh111 Posted November 22, 2007 Author Posted November 22, 2007 Can't now copy the drawing without it freezing!! Quote
Raggi_Thor Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 OK, i misunderstood Have you tried RECOVER? Sometimes INSERT into a new drawing will work. Can you XRE the drawing and then bind it? If all this fails, maybe try another program, open the darwing and save as a new file. Quote
Tiger Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 aouch.....can you post up the drawing for one of us to take a look at? Quote
cjh111 Posted November 22, 2007 Author Posted November 22, 2007 Thanks, have attached drawing. Once I start editing this then the problem occors. Any solutions would be greatly appreciated. 32.dwg Quote
Tiger Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 try this one - my ACad didn't freeze, but I couldn't copy everything out. I found two solids in there though, and when I took them out it worked. Can you do something with it without freezing? Quote
Hedgehog Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 Can't see anything wrong with it... I've copied every entity & erased the originals so on this copy there's not a single original entity left then taken it out to a new drawing... try it & see. Drawing3.dwg Quote
cjh111 Posted November 22, 2007 Author Posted November 22, 2007 Tiger - your dwg still froze, thanks anyway. Hedgehog - your dwg seems to work fine, cheers for this. Will let you know how I get on. Why does this happen? Hopefully it won't happen again. Problem is i do a lot of copy, paste & save as etc. so this type of thing could be a big problem. Quote
Hedgehog Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 For it to load up on both our systems (2006 & 2007) with no probs I'd say it's either an error in your AutoCAD (maybe needs reloading or repairing) or a specific prob with 2008 (I've not got one to test it with at the moment... I'll see if I can get on a machine with 2008). Quote
Tiger Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 ... with 2008). methinks we should do something about this smiley.. Quote
NBC Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 during a quick look at the file, i found a 'bad' text style, which was referenced into the Standard Dimension Style. Having said that, even after purging them out, the drawing still froze. It wasn't until I did as Tiger mentioned, and erased the eroneous solids did the drawing not freeze up. Quote
Hedgehog Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 Ahhh... it locked up my colleagues 2008 machine... that drawing doesn't like 2008 for some reason. (But Tiger, I like 2008) ) Quote
Tiger Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 (But Tiger, I like 2008) ) it's a bit confusing though...thank goodness I got 2006 - no funny smileys at the end there! Quote
riga Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 It wasn't until I did as Tiger mentioned, and erased the eroneous solids did the drawing not freeze up. On a friend machine with 2008 still keep crash even after deleting the 2 solids (which surely came from an exploded dimension ). It crashes when he goes in dimension styles and after checking the dimensions styles try to go back to drawing. Quote
NBC Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 On a friend machine with 2008 still keep crash even after deleting the 2 solids (which surely came from an exploded dimension ).It crashes when he goes in dimension styles and after checking the dimensions styles try to go back to drawing. Did he forcibly purge before he tried going into Dimension Styles ? It looks like at some stage, this drawing was auditted, as it created "Audited Entities". Is it possible that these are what is making it still freeze ? Quote
riga Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 Did he forcibly purge before he tried going into Dimension Styles ? It looks like at some stage, this drawing was auditted, as it created "Audited Entities". Is it possible that these are what is making it still freeze ? Yes, purged an saved. No Audited text style referenced (I have edited all the blocks which also contain generated text styles). But still crash Quote
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