AutoCAD 2015 - Dynamic Block / Civil Palette / Parking Spaces

[dennis]

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.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

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 -

[dennis]

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

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

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 -

[jdavis417]

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.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

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 -

[jdavis417]

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-haw

[dennis]

Experimenting 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.

[dennis]

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.

[jdavis417]

Christopher Chen of Autodesk is looking into this!

[chenchri · Accepted solution]

Thank you all for trying and reporting the issue. It has been passed to development team for research and potential fix. Christopher