We need a procedure for cleaning up a corrupted file!
Many times in the past few years I have had issues where some elements have been corrupted. They show and function in bizarre and unpredictable ways. Usually the answer is copying elements into a new file. This is very incomplete as so much of the file structure can't be copied and pasted. (viewports and their annotations, references...) Naturally the more complex the file the more likely to corrupt and the longer it takes to fix, just as the deadline arrives!
An other CAD program I'm familiar with uses their backup files. Restoring from a backup runs a checker on the data and supply defaults for missing data. Something might change but you know you have a good base for cleaning it up.
Perhaps a combination of the two: An external program that copied all the elements from one file to new one. It would have to start with preferences then move on to layers, classes, resources, references and objects. Then it would have all that's needed to do the viewports.
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We need a procedure for cleaning up a corrupted file!
Many times in the past few years I have had issues where some elements have been corrupted. They show and function in bizarre and unpredictable ways. Usually the answer is copying elements into a new file. This is very incomplete as so much of the file structure can't be copied and pasted. (viewports and their annotations, references...) Naturally the more complex the file the more likely to corrupt and the longer it takes to fix, just as the deadline arrives!
An other CAD program I'm familiar with uses their backup files. Restoring from a backup runs a checker on the data and supply defaults for missing data. Something might change but you know you have a good base for cleaning it up.
Perhaps a combination of the two: An external program that copied all the elements from one file to new one. It would have to start with preferences then move on to layers, classes, resources, references and objects. Then it would have all that's needed to do the viewports.
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