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Swap a block project wide

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flyFisher67
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Swap a block project wide

Using AE2012. I'm having an issue with project wide updates. I'm using swap a block as an example. The only project wide feature that is working currently is the title block update.

What is happening is that when I select, for example, a block to swap and then select project wide and the specific drawings to proces, AE does the first drawing only, then stops.

Has anyone else experienced this?

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johnq
in reply to: flyFisher67

Hello

 

You question caught my interest as I have had considerable issues learning this program.

 

The command does work for me as I had some time and did a test.   I have had problems with this in the past and not bothered with this feature.

 

I ticked "do all" and it is very slow.    I am on ACE2012 64bit i7 processot 8gb memory.

 

see added screen shot as this is what I use.

 

My drawing set is not large and I would normally do it sheet by sheet due to the slow implimentation of the update command.

 

I did not test if it would swap with a different family.

 

cheers jq

 

 

 

 

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testsubject
in reply to: johnq

That is strange.

 

I just ran a small test and inserted a single soleniod on 3 seperate drawings and then used swap block and selected a different solenoid from the menu and  had no trouble updating the 3 drawings.

 

Are you pulling the drawings from across a network? That will slow things down during project wide functions. It usually is still managable though.



Bob Hanrahan
Ace User since 1998
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flyFisher67
in reply to: flyFisher67

Thanks for the replies guys.

It turns out that our CAD administrator had recently added some start-up routines that were interfering with the software. As soon as he removed them, I got full functionality back. I guess that's what you get for having a piper as administrator! 🙂

So problem solved.

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