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Message 1 of 15
Anonymous
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fatal error-lost all viewport images

I work with a lot of viewports on multiple layouts in paperspace and put all
my dimensions on paperspace. I tried to open a drawing that I finished
yesterday and got a FATAL ERROR:Unhandled Access Violation Reading 0x0004
Exception at 6546a219h. I did a recovery on the drawing and actually was
able to open it but all of my viewports are empty...I am hoping someone can
help me so that I do not have to rescale and re-dimension everything!!!

--
Leah-Kim
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Message 2 of 15
kgerew
in reply to: Anonymous

See if the viewports are turned "off" .... look at the properties of the viewport ... on should say "yes"
Message 3 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Check your autosave and your .bak files to see if
you can still anything from them.


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
See
if the viewports are turned "off" .... look at the properties of the viewport
... on should say "yes"
Message 4 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

The properties show

On = yes

clipped = no

display locked = no

standard scale = custom

custom scale = 5.59934E+48

UCS per viewport = yes

Hide plot = no

    I am guessing I have something
strange going on with the scale, because it looks like all of the viewports show
some exponential number.  When I first opened the drawing each layout just
looked like white space...when I do a zoom extents the drawing shows up with the
viewports, the dimensions and the title block, with out views.  I don't
really know what the viewport properties represent.  Do you have another
suggestion?

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Leah-Kim


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
See
if the viewports are turned "off" .... look at the properties of the viewport
... on should say "yes"
Message 5 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Jason,

 

I did already look at my bak file, it seemed to
have the same problem.  And unfortunately it looks like I moved my
file folders and forgot to change the location of my autosave files...it
looks like it hasn't been working for a few months...I can put that on the list
of really dumb things I have done...

 

Leah-Kim


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Check your autosave and your .bak files to see if
you can still anything from them.


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
See
if the viewports are turned "off" .... look at the properties of the
viewport ... on should say "yes"
Message 6 of 15
kgerew
in reply to: Anonymous

Have seen that before ... I believe the viewports are corrupt ... can u make the custom scale 0? Did you look in your temp directory for a saved copy of the file before it crashed? would have a .sv$ extension ... u may be able to make it a .dwg and get closer to where u were.
Message 7 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Kenneth,

    Setting the custom scale to 0
gives me a zoom extents...but it then drags all the dimensions off into strange
places...I am still trying...I changed the location of my files a few months
back and didn't realize that all the custom file location paths I had set up
were no longer valid...it doesn't look like the autosaves were going
anywhere...I have put this little excercise down as one of the dumber things I
have done!  Looks like I have pretty much trashed a days worth of
work!  I will try some other things...so please let me know if you have any
other ideas...thanks for your help!

 

Leah-Kim


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Have
seen that before ... I believe the viewports are corrupt ... can u make the
custom scale 0? Did you look in your temp directory for a saved copy of the
file before it crashed? would have a .sv$ extension ... u may be able to make
it a .dwg and get closer to where u were.
Message 8 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

 Can you post the file in customer-files?
Maybe we can all try to help solve the problem.


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Kenneth,

    Setting the custom scale to 0
gives me a zoom extents...but it then drags all the dimensions off into
strange places...I am still trying...I changed the location of my files a few
months back and didn't realize that all the custom file location paths I had
set up were no longer valid...it doesn't look like the autosaves were going
anywhere...I have put this little excercise down as one of the dumber things I
have done!  Looks like I have pretty much trashed a days worth of
work!  I will try some other things...so please let me know if you have
any other ideas...thanks for your help!

 

Leah-Kim


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Have
seen that before ... I believe the viewports are corrupt ... can u make the
custom scale 0? Did you look in your temp directory for a saved copy of the
file before it crashed? would have a .sv$ extension ... u may be able to
make it a .dwg and get closer to where u
were.
Message 9 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Thanks, Jason, I can post the drawing.  I just
started redimensioning everything...although it is still a problem.  After
I dimension a layout and switch to another layout and scale the viewport it
actually messes up the dimensions in the previous layout...it is really a mess,
what I have done to get the drawings off to the customer is explode all the
dimensions so that they stay in place, but I think I am going to have to start
over with the layouts...it would be nice to know what happened or at least how
to fix it if it happens again.  I am not sure how to post a file
though...

 

Leah-Kim


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

 Can you post the file in customer-files?
Maybe we can all try to help solve the problem.


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Kenneth,

    Setting the custom scale to
0 gives me a zoom extents...but it then drags all the dimensions off into
strange places...I am still trying...I changed the location of my files a
few months back and didn't realize that all the custom file location paths I
had set up were no longer valid...it doesn't look like the autosaves were
going anywhere...I have put this little excercise down as one of the dumber
things I have done!  Looks like I have pretty much trashed a days worth
of work!  I will try some other things...so please let me know if you
have any other ideas...thanks for your help!

 

Leah-Kim


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Have
seen that before ... I believe the viewports are corrupt ... can u make
the custom scale 0? Did you look in your temp directory for a saved copy
of the file before it crashed? would have a .sv$ extension ... u may be
able to make it a .dwg and get closer to where u
were.
Message 10 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Leah-Kim -

Customer Files (CF) is an area for upload of problem files for
review or sharing. Users are asked to zip any files prior to
uploading to conserve download time and server space. You are
using OE6 and can use the "attach" function to a post in the CF
section.

For NNTP newsgroup readers the Customer-files newsgroup can be
found at
news://discussion.autodesk.com/autodesk.autocad.customer-files.

You may also access the customer-files group via the HTTP
web-based forums at
http://discussion.autodesk.com/WebX?14@@.ee940b5.
--
Anne Brown
Manager, Moderator
Autodesk Product Support Discussion Groups
Discussion Q&A: http://www.autodesk.com/discussion


Leah-Kim Cseh wrote:
>
(snip) I am > not sure how to post a file though...
>
> Leah-Kim
Message 11 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Leah,
check out your Windows-Temp folder.
Maybe there is something like a sv$ file.
If autocad can't place an autosave file to a folder it sometimes puts them
in the windows-temp folder.

Jan


"Leah-Kim Cseh" schreef in bericht
news:9D8505134E5011FCAA437627DEE6336E@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I work with a lot of viewports on multiple layouts in paperspace and put
all
> my dimensions on paperspace. I tried to open a drawing that I finished
> yesterday and got a FATAL ERROR:Unhandled Access Violation Reading 0x0004
> Exception at 6546a219h. I did a recovery on the drawing and actually was
> able to open it but all of my viewports are empty...I am hoping someone
can
> help me so that I do not have to rescale and re-dimension everything!!!
>
> --
> Leah-Kim
>
>
Message 12 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Hi Leah,
check out the customer files.
I have put there two files, one in R-14 and one in R-200x format, heavily
purged.
Size is now almost half.

Was able to recover your drawing after several fatal errors.
Don't know what exactly needs to show in the viewports, but whatever was
shown there the dims stayed as they were.
Viewport scale is huge, really, you want to correct that.
Maybe the problem lies that you are still saving in R-14 format?

Succes,
Jan

"Jan van de Poel" schreef in bericht
news:8600CBDD741F11CFC82DB069F824BB2B@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Leah,
> check out your Windows-Temp folder.
> Maybe there is something like a sv$ file.
> If autocad can't place an autosave file to a folder it sometimes puts them
> in the windows-temp folder.
>
> Jan
>
>
> "Leah-Kim Cseh" schreef in bericht
> news:9D8505134E5011FCAA437627DEE6336E@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > I work with a lot of viewports on multiple layouts in paperspace and put
> all
> > my dimensions on paperspace. I tried to open a drawing that I finished
> > yesterday and got a FATAL ERROR:Unhandled Access Violation Reading
0x0004
> > Exception at 6546a219h. I did a recovery on the drawing and actually
was
> > able to open it but all of my viewports are empty...I am hoping someone
> can
> > help me so that I do not have to rescale and re-dimension everything!!!
> >
> > --
> > Leah-Kim
> >
> >
>
>
Message 13 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Addition to my earlier post.
If some dims still jump, try DISASSOCIATE, you disconnect them from the
drawing.
You are than able to scale the viewport.
After that you may want to REASSOCIATE the dims.(if neccessary)

Good luck,
Jan

"Jan van de Poel" schreef in bericht
news:BC4742E7FD38FC4EECE88F6F97C1E76D@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Hi Leah,
> check out the customer files.
> I have put there two files, one in R-14 and one in R-200x format, heavily
> purged.
> Size is now almost half.
>
> Was able to recover your drawing after several fatal errors.
> Don't know what exactly needs to show in the viewports, but whatever was
> shown there the dims stayed as they were.
> Viewport scale is huge, really, you want to correct that.
> Maybe the problem lies that you are still saving in R-14 format?
>
> Succes,
> Jan
>
> "Jan van de Poel" schreef in bericht
> news:8600CBDD741F11CFC82DB069F824BB2B@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > Leah,
> > check out your Windows-Temp folder.
> > Maybe there is something like a sv$ file.
> > If autocad can't place an autosave file to a folder it sometimes puts
them
> > in the windows-temp folder.
> >
> > Jan
> >
> >
> > "Leah-Kim Cseh" schreef in bericht
> > news:9D8505134E5011FCAA437627DEE6336E@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > > I work with a lot of viewports on multiple layouts in paperspace and
put
> > all
> > > my dimensions on paperspace. I tried to open a drawing that I
finished
> > > yesterday and got a FATAL ERROR:Unhandled Access Violation Reading
> 0x0004
> > > Exception at 6546a219h. I did a recovery on the drawing and actually
> was
> > > able to open it but all of my viewports are empty...I am hoping
someone
> > can
> > > help me so that I do not have to rescale and re-dimension
everything!!!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Leah-Kim
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Message 14 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Just a note about your autosaves.  It works
quite differently from the yesteryears of autocad.  Now.. when you
successfully open and close a session of autocad, the program gets rid of your
autosaves.  So, if you get a big crash, go check and move that autosave
file from it's location before you start opening and closing autocad
again.  (I kinda miss the old system too)


--
Andy Rollins
CAD Manager
Jones
& Beach Engineers, Inc.
Message 15 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Andy,

    Thanks!  At least I know
now that it wasn't a total dumb move on my part...this must have been on some
upgrade because I don't believe it was like that when I installed
AutoCAD2002...is there an easy way to change that?  I just watched
what the autosave did with a drawing I was working on and it actually deleted
when I saved and closed the drawing...so the autosave doesn't really act as a
fail safe anymore...it's only purpose now, I am assuming, is if your computer
crashes.  The *.bak file will only save what you possibly already messed
up...I know I can go back and restore a file from our system backups, but
that still means a whole day of lost work if this happens again because we
only do system backups once a day.  I suppose I could save to a removable
drive...but that seems like marching back into the dark ages!

 

Cheers,

Leah-Kim 


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Just a note about your autosaves.  It works
quite differently from the yesteryears of autocad.  Now.. when you
successfully open and close a session of autocad, the program gets rid of your
autosaves.  So, if you get a big crash, go check and move that autosave
file from it's location before you start opening and closing autocad
again.  (I kinda miss the old system too)


--
Andy Rollins
CAD Manager
Jones
& Beach Engineers, Inc.

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