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...dwg file crashing my machine.......

  • 21-07-2015 12:49pm
    #1
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭✭


    Long story short, I use Draft Sight for the (amount) of cad I have to do (not that much.) Our full time AT's etc use Solid Works and we do have Autodesk Acad on some machines (which we've gone away from).

    So, to my problem. I got a .dwg file from a client, and as soon as I attempt to open it, it crashes my machine. My bad I think. So I get our acad guys to open it in Autodesk and it's fine, but it crashes their DS too. So, they clean/purge the drawing in Acad, and export it and.........I can then open it. Great, you would think.

    But alas not: as each iteration of that drawing comes in from the client, we keep getting the same issue. They have cleaned it too (a lot of hatching), but it's causing a headache now here not being able to open and work on it easily.

    I do know the client drew it using Vectorworks and he's exporting it as a .dwg for me to use, and he's now removed (most) of the hatching, but it's still causing problems.

    Can anyone shed any light on what may be happening here ?

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



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  • #2
    Strolling Bones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 615 ✭✭✭Strolling Bones


    Hatching is always the no 1 culprit for this. Ask the sender to purge all hatching before sending onto you.


  • #3
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,794 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Strolling Bones wrote: »
    Hatching is always the no 1 culprit for this. Ask the sender to purge all hatching before sending onto you.

    Ohh how i dont miss the days of receiving Architects drawings with every square inch covered in one form of hatch or another, then having to strip it all down to put our structure on it, we destroyed masterpieces in some case :)

    Hopefully the hatching issue fixes it, but i do know im having some slow spells with Autocad 2015 on my 5 year old laptop at present with minimum hatching....I think all this online/cloud malarkey has slowed alot of programs right down!


  • #4
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Yeah, I've stripped it out, and whilst better, it's crashing my machine 9 times out of 10. And it is only this one project - I can work on any number of others without issue.

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #5
    DvB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,488 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Is there any 3d blocks in the drawing? AutoCAD can struggle dealing with 3d blocks if you dont have a fair amount of RAM and a decent processor... I've had many an issue with what appeared to be 2d xrefs from mechanical designers only to discover alot of the elemenst were 3d and were huge in terms of memory, in turn slowing my machines performance considerably, to the point where it crashed frequently if trying to make changes etc.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • #6
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,141 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    Flatten, audit & purge - and then head to the cad forum http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1142#


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  • #7
    Drift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭Drift


    Hey galwaytt - I'm a bit late to the party on this one. We use vectorworks a lot and sometimes encounter the same thing when we export dwg files.

    A list of things you should ask the client to do:
    1. Delete ALL fills and ALL solid colours from the vectorworks file before export.
    2. Explode (call ungroup in VW) all grouped objects.
    3. In the export dialog box in VW I have found the following options to help:
    • Export class as DWG Layers
    • Don't export 2D fills
    • Don't export hatch pattern files
    • Don't eport any 3D items
    • Map line weights to colours

    Hopefully some one or a combination of these things might help. If it's not a special or private file I'm happy to throw an eye over it for you. (The original VW file I mean - I suspect the export is where the problem lies.)


  • #8
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Drift wrote: »
    Hey galwaytt - I'm a bit late to the party on this one. We use vectorworks a lot and sometimes encounter the same thing when we export dwg files.

    A list of things you should ask the client to do:
    1. Delete ALL fills and ALL solid colours from the vectorworks file before export.
    2. Explode (call ungroup in VW) all grouped objects.
    3. In the export dialog box in VW I have found the following options to help:
    • Export class as DWG Layers
    • Don't export 2D fills
    • Don't export hatch pattern files
    • Don't eport any 3D items
    • Map line weights to colours

    Hopefully some one or a combination of these things might help. If it's not a special or private file I'm happy to throw an eye over it for you. (The original VW file I mean - I suspect the export is where the problem lies.)


    Super info, many thanks.

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



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