Problem updating report on drawing

[kwj]

When I run a bill of material report and choose to place on drawing-> update existing, nothing happens and the message "Unknown command "0/ENU/SUPPORT/USER/_SMARTTBL.SCR"." appears in the output console. Any ideas?

[dougmcalexander]

I've never seen that error myself.  But I can tell you that, if Update Existing is not an option, it means that no report created from the selected format has been inserted previously into the project.  I use Automatic Reports but I can still update by reports by re-running the report I need and selecting the same format file that I used to create it in the first place.  If a report created with that format exists anywhere in the project, it gets updated.

Hint: The software will find the report and update it, even if you don't have the drawing open. I cover this on day 5 of training.  We set up Automatic Reports to generate BOM drawings and wire list drawings, adding them to the end of the project.  They both spread across multiple drawings because one page won't hold all the data.  We make a change and then re-run whichever report is necessary by clicking the Format button at the bottom of the chosen Report category and selecting the .set file we saved earlier when we created/customized the report.   This is done using the Report Format Setup utility.  The Update Existing option becomes available if the software finds a report anywhere in the project that was created from the same .set file.  It will update multiple drawings at once, if the original report spreads across multiple pages/drawings.

[kwj · Accepted solution]

I figured it out. My borrowed license had expired about a half hour previously. I continued to get a bunch of other weird errors until I killed autocad, borrowed the license again, and restarted.

Thanks for the tips.