Alan61 Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 I'm trying to export from VW 2014 to create a 2012 DWG file and I get a "Teigha Library Error - The file could not be opened". I have rebooted and only opened Vectorworks and I still get the error. I also deleted all previous DWG export folders previous exports had produced but were empty. I'm running Windows 10. I've even tried copying just the design layer I want to export to a new file, but I still get the error. Can anyone help or point me in the right direction. I've searched the community board. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted November 20, 2017 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 20, 2017 I see a few similar cases from 2014, but I don't see any fixed for 2014 specifically, looks like it was resolved only in later versions. If you send me the file in a direct message I can attempt an export here with a later version but still to DWG 2012. Quote Link to comment
Alan61 Posted November 20, 2017 Author Share Posted November 20, 2017 Thanks Jim. I sent it to a colleague who has the exact same setup as I do with VW 2014 and Windows 10 and he managed to export it fine, so now I'm confused but we at least we have a work around. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted November 20, 2017 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 20, 2017 Do your user account or the folder you were trying to export to have anything unusual in their names? Anything other than the standard english alphanumeric characters? I have seen that cause similar problems on occasion, but that is a wild guess at best. Quote Link to comment
Alan61 Posted November 20, 2017 Author Share Posted November 20, 2017 The folders have _ (underscore) in the name and the file has , (comma) in the name. I just tried it again but exporting to my desktop and it worked fine. I tried it another time but to the directory with the underscore and it worked fine. So I think it is the deep directory structure that causes the problem. Good one. :-) Quote Link to comment
Jeremy Best Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Hi @Alan61 and @JimW, I just had a session with a user getting this error and discovered a cause that might be as-yet unreported. I'm posting this to add to the (small) list of conditions responsible for this error message: One of the directories/folders in the file address used a huge number of characters (43). We shortened the name and all file exports worked thereafter. It might be worth noting that when the directory/folder name was long, some Sheet Layers exported successfully sometimes but one Sheet Layer never did. After shortening the directory/folder name they all exported 100% of the time. 1 Quote Link to comment
NickS Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 If it helps anyone for the future I also had a long filename trying to save to a folder with commas (on a network share) which threw up the Teigha Library error. After keeping the long filename (48 characters) but switching to a folder without commas on my desktop, it worked fine Quote Link to comment
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