AutoCAD Electrical

[#1]

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?

[#2]

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

[#3]

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.

[#4]

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.