johnharley Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Is there any utility to analyse and fix a corrupt drawing file? We have a site plan that can only be worked on for a few minutes and then the drawing crashes. We get the Mircosoft error: "VectorWorks has encountered a problem and needs to shut down..yada, yada". We literally need to save after every drawing/editing opperation. This makes for a very long day. We have tried the drawing on different machines, same problem. We have tested other drawings on these machines, and have no problems. Using: VW12 Windows On a Dell Dimension 3.0 Ghz, 4mb Ram, Nvidia 3450 Quadro 256 mb vid card Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Purging the file often helps. If all else fails use WorkGroupReferencing ...search these posts 'WGR' for step-by-step... Quote Link to comment
jfmarch Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Archoncad has a great PDF tipsheet called 'How to Save a Corrupt File' from this site: http://www.archoncad.co.nz/resources/resources.php. I have been forced to use it only a handful of times, and it really works. The only lost time it does not get you is for preset views, and sheets. It also does not get you any of the layers above the corruption in the layer stack. Good luck Quote Link to comment
panthony Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 I do not know if this has anything to do with corruption of files but since I took away layer and class control from the system I have had zero corruption issues. After the second project file crashed it really messed up the VW operating program which required a re-install. I have never been able to identify the cause of the corruption. Workgroup referencing helped to recover most of the data however. Since then I have set up my own layer, class, sheet and VP structure that I manage and it is working great. Pete A Quote Link to comment
johnharley Posted September 8, 2006 Author Share Posted September 8, 2006 Thanks everyone. These suggestions sound promising. I will try them out. We have been using our own layering/class system from the start. I never really got into the VW drawing organization. We really have not had a big problem with corruption in the past. This particular plan is a bit more complicated. One difference I did notice, this plan has LOTS of plant lines, Many ojects have been "plant lined",(including applying plant lines to plant lines - they look neat but the give the cpu a real workout) In earlier versions of VW we used to have issues with them. It seemed to settle down, but I think we are probabley pushing the number even higher with this drawing. Quote Link to comment
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