Jon Howard Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 We have just updated one of our workstations to VW11 to take advantage of the supposedly better support for DWG conversion. However, we are still getting CriticalOpenDWG! errors on some drawings - including those where we have created a test drawing in-house on Vectorworks (9.5), converted it to a .dwg, worked on it on our AutocadLT (2002) workstation, and then sent it back to our VW workstations. The drawings are stripped out of all excess data, and are only 200K or so in size. What is causing this problem and what can we do to help our clients format the drawings better when sending to us? Quote Link to comment
Jon Howard Posted June 21, 2004 Author Share Posted June 21, 2004 Yes - using OS 10.3.3. Regards, Jonathan Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 There are some object types and vector definitions in the standard dwg file format as it comes from AutoCAD that just aren't easily processed by a Mac. Keep in mind that AC is a PC only application and alot of the data used to create AC file definitions make the conversion process difficult for a mac to process. Usually when you get an instance like this, a hatch is to blame. AC's hatch definitions are not as stable as other vector object definitions. Quote Link to comment
Jon Howard Posted June 22, 2004 Author Share Posted June 22, 2004 OK - Is it possible to get VW to ignore the hatches? What happens on the Critical error is that VW crashes & shuts down. With OS 10.3.3 at least the system doesn't hang, but it's not very elegant. Jonathan Quote Link to comment
Jon Howard Posted June 22, 2004 Author Share Posted June 22, 2004 I've now checked with our A'cad operator here, and the mini test .dwgs we're having problems with *do not* contain any hatches. One drawing is only a circle and a box of text, yet still causes the crash. Would you like me to send you the files? They're really very small. Jonathan Quote Link to comment
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