This specific dynamic block 'outtabox' causes a lock up on my laptop. All the other dynamic blocks work fine. My first thought was a bad DWG, so I went and checked it first in my 2014 (worked fine) and then copied the supporting DWGs into place for the 2015. Again, still locks up my AutoCAD when I use the access for more spaces via the onscreen icon menu down-arrow or the Properties palette. It appears to work for the first change, say 1 to 3, but a subseqent change causes a lock up.
Anyone seen this as well? Any ideas for a fix? I do have users that use this tool so I wanna fix it up.
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Hi,
>> This specific dynamic block 'outtabox' causes a lock up on my laptop. All the other dynamic blocks work fine
So it's specific to just that one block, I guess we need that block to be able to say anything about that specific block 😉
- alfred -
Yeah, you are right, the specific dynamic block probably would help. It is the Parking-Imperial Dynamic Block (and the Parking-Metric Dynamic Block does it too) on the Civil tool palette which is pulled from the C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2015\Sample\en-US\Dynamic Blocks\Civil - Imperial.dwg
Hi,
>> It is the Parking-Imperial Dynamic Block (and the Parking-Metric Dynamic Block does it too) on the Civil tool palette
Which one from them (look to my screenshot, there is more than ONE parking block)? I have tried a few of them, no issues.
So it might also be interesting what modifications you (exactly) tried that crahsed C3D.
- alfred -
I don't think he ever mentioned C3D... just that it comes from the Civil Pallette?
When I changed to 4, it took a few seconds. 10 has been crunching for about 15 minutes, now. I only have 4GB of DDR3 memory... how much do each of you have?
When I get tired of waiting (or if it succeeds) I'll try a few things on both the original file (like opening, purge, audit and saving it) then maybe recreating the array part of the dynamic block.
Hi,
>> I don't think he ever mentioned C3D... just that it comes from the Civil Pallette?
Sorry, my mistake.
And now using the correct palette and so the block "Parking - Metric" I can reproduce the issue, not good. ;(
Might be a useful info: after every single change of the array-value ("Spaces") the command _AUDIT finds errors (number of errors = number of spaces - 1)
- alfred -
I re-created the dynamic block from scratch and it worked in the Test environment to array out 10 times exactly once! I went back to add the capability to array it out 20 times and it failed (the same result as before... the software does its impression of "The Thinking Man" statue). I re-visited the block and it would not work, even though no save was done from the previous attempt at "improvement".
I have reported the issue via the Feedback button provided on the glorious Home page in AutoCAD.
P.S. Isn't it neat how I have two login's with the same name but different attributes? I seem to recall a "one login for all Autodesk" mantra? haw-hawExperimenting around a bit on this. It seems it has to do with a combination of the Constraints/DimConstraints fighting with the Array command. I recreated the block with no Constraints whatsoever, and it seems to perform as expected. Once I get to about 4 or 5 various constraints, it locks up. Then I went the other way, by inserting the Parking-Imperial and deleting constraints. Once down to just 3, it was stable.
I have now checked this on several other installs on different PCs with different hardware. Each have the same problem. Autodesk, a bug fix would be nice.
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