Issues with opening existing drawings in 2014

[Anonymous]

Please HELP!! 

Very new to this, Help very much appreciated
We recently bought CAD 2014 (a week ago, new, not upgrade). We have been working on DRAFTSIGHT previously. Having a major problem opening drawings in 2014. A drawing that was workable yesterday, wont open at all today. Does not happen all the time, but once the drawing 'disappears' it stays un-openable even on other PCs. It still opens in DRAFTSIGHT, but hey, we would like to move on.  (New server also installed, maybe teething problems?) (We are a small company) Recover does not work, saving or moving to Desktop does not work either. Not using + tab and even 'reset to default', but, alas, still no joy.

Anybody? 

[JoAnn_Hogan]

Could you please post that drawing here so I could have a look at it?

[Anonymous]

Hi JoAnn,

Thanks for the quick response. Hope i'm doing this right. Please see attached.

Kind regards

[braudpat]

Hello from France

Welcome on the Autodesk/AutoCAD Forums !

1) Please could you try to open your DWGs in RECOVER Mode ?

2) Which Windows exactly : Win XP Pro, Win Seven, Win 8.0, Win 8.1 ??

and version 32 or 64 bits ?

3) How many Ram on your PC : 2 / 3 / 4 / 6 / 8 / etc Gb ?

Bye, Pat

PS: I don't see your attached DWG, so please attach it in ZIP format !

[Anonymous]

Hi Pat,

1. Tried recover. It goes through the motions, but still no drawing. (No error messages either, just blank)

2. Windows 7

3. Not a clue 🙂 will find out

Attached zip. Not much smaller. Are the drawing files maybe too big? (The drawings opened fine yesterday)

Thanks for response,

Ami

[Anonymous]

usable: 3.2GB

[braudpat]

Hello

I have tried to open your DWG in Recover Mode with MAP 2014  & MAP 2013

- No Error

- I see nothing

So it is strange ...

Have you tried to save in DXF format from Drafsight and try to load the DXF file from ACAD ?

Bye, Pat

[Anonymous]

I have, yes. But I will try again 🙂

[JoAnn_Hogan]

Please see attachment. I can see there is data in the drawing but it doesnt open it at all. I think you should submit your drawing to Autodesk themselfs and see if they can recover it

[Anonymous]

Thanks JoAnn 🙂

[JoAnn_Hogan]

Sorry forgot the attachment

[braudpat]

Hello

An other idea ...

Have you tried to save from Drafsight in an OLD DWG/DXF format : 2007 / 2004 / 2000 / R14 ???

Which format Drafsight can write ???

Bye, Pat

[Anonymous]

The following error was encountered while reading
in REGION starting at line 1213580:
No ShapeManager body was read
Invalid or incomplete DXF input -- drawing discarded.
I Had to save as .dxf from DRAFTSIGHT

[braudpat]

Hello

Ah, Ah, so in fact your DXF (or DWG) generated by Drafsight, is incorrect !

And ACAD can recover (or open) it ... but something is wrong !!

Bye, Pat

[Anonymous]

Yes. All our drawings originate from DRAFTSIGHT, but it is not affecting all the drawings we open in 2014 (yet). That is what bothers me. Need this sorted soon :). I will contact AutoDesk, maybe they have encountered this before. Thank you so much for your responnse 🙂 Kind regards, Ami

[pendean]

You know what they will say: source from Draftsight is the problem and refer you back to the source.

I opened your file in DraftSight, purged it, saved it to R14 format, it seems to open just fine in AutoCAD 2012-2014 now, model space and the single paperspace layout are well populated with content. See attached.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi Dean, Seems we have a gremlin. I tried your drawing, but it still would not open. Did exactly what you did. still not.:( I have now 'exported' it as a block. And suddenly it's working.
I'm hoping this is the end of it 🙂 got all the fingers crossed. Thanks a million for your help 🙂
Kind regards
Ami