OK where to begin... I manage about 19 licenses of AIS 2008, we use MDT 2008 mostly with some use of Inventor 2008 for sheetmetal work. I have been using AutoCAD for many years but I am new to MDT and Inventor... HELP!
The installs were done in one of two ways, either with a deployment that was created by the previous CAD guys and a Autodesk reseller/training/consulting company or from Autodesk media (4 disk original CD set) service packs are up to date and hot fixes have been applied.
That said the issues run the gambit and I am not sure why. Here is a short list of the issues we are seeing, (any input from those more familiar with MDT is appreciated, so please chime in)!
- Upon opening, MDT just freezes and then shuts down completely no errors or anything. (this has happened on multiple machines with multiple different drawings. so it is nt able to narrow it down to one or two drawings or even one or two workstations.)
- After a drawing is open it appears to work fine then "FATAL ERROR" or "Unhandled Exception Error" or "Unhandled Access" and again CRASH.... Happens on multiple drawings and multiple workstations, it seems to make no difference where we go or what we do we get the same result with different hardware and software.
- Files of different sizes seem to be seeing the same issues as above, it doesn't matter if it is a 1,500 kb drawing or a 35,000 kb drawing the result is a crash.
I would say on average we see 5 to 10 complete shut down the program crashes on 90% of our machines a day. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling AIS and MDT, even uninstalling the OS and starting over fresh and still the same issues arise... Is MDT/inventor just that unstable, or is something else happening here? I am use to crashes but this is out of control!
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