AutoCAD Electrical

[#1]

Hello All,

I am having an issue with the project manager.

When ever I shut down ACADE and reopen it All the projects that were in the project manager tree are gone

I have to go back in and reopen them each time I start AUTOCAD

I am assuming that there is a setting for this but I cannot find anything.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Thanks

Dennis

[#2]

Dennis,

Are you using a local profiles or is your login deleted from the local computer and rebuilt in the morning everyday? If so, this might be the problem. The open Projects are stored in the following locations (this is from the Help Screen):

The Project Manager displays a list of recently opened projects so you can easily select another project to open without having to browse for it. The project list is dynamic with the last project you worked on appearing at the top of the list. The list of recent projects is saved in a text file called lastproj.fil in the user subdirectory.


Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD Electrical {version}\{release}\{country code}\Support\User\

Windows 7: \Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\AutoCAD Electrical {version}\{release}\{country code}\Support\User\

Each line in this file gives the information for one project. The last piece of data in the line identifies what the project state is when AutoCAD Electrical is started: "2"=Active, "1"=listed as Open, "0"= not listed in window but available from the Recent Projects dialog box. If you adjust this file, either manually with a text editor or programmatically (see the AutoCAD Electrical API Help), you can control which project is active when AutoCAD Electrical starts up, and which other projects are shown in the Project Manager window.

[#3]

This happens even if I do not shut off the computer just closing AutoCAD.

[#4]

Not sure what to tell you now. Maybe one of the Autocad reps can chime in.

[#5]

FYI

at the same time this happened I also lost the ability to right click over an electrical component and have the elecrtical edit box pop up.

I fixed that by adding a line from the WD_LOAD.LSP routine to the ACAD,LSP routine.

Not sure why that line doesnt work in the 1st routine but it works in the 2nd one.

Both routines are loaded from the startup suite.

[#6 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Did you try to delete the lastproj.fil in your roaming support user folder if you using Win7?

Maybe it got corrupted due to random crash or error in ACE.

Thanks.

[#7]

Deleting it and reopening Acad E worked

Thanks for the help