If you can open it in R14, try wblocking it out and
creating a new drawing. If it has paperspace objects including only a
titleblock, wblock that out too. Then create a new drawing and insert both
wblocks into their appropriate spaces....ie, ms or ps. Sometimes
this will clear out the little piece of junk that is offending 2002.
This was a regular occurance at LAX with consultant
dwgs containing data created with eaglepoint or other 3rd party software a
couple of years ago. We sent several of the drawings to Autodesk tech
support for their info and at their request. The conclusion that was
explained to me was that there were slight corruptions that took place in R14
when the 3rd party software was used. This minor corruption was tolerated
by R14 because it was not as particular about corruption as 2000. We had
this problem with 2000.
The Wblock solution seemed to work most of the
time. They also said sometimes the drawing needed to be saved as R13 to
clear out the junk before it would open. So you could save it as R13, but
open it into R14, and then wblock it.
2002 is even more particular than 2000 in some
cases so it probably is the same problem with the same solution.
Another thing you need to do is to stop saving as
R14 as your default, if that is what you are doing. Save all your working
files as 2000 drwgs, and if your consultants need them back from you in R14
format, save it specially for them as R14 and archive it if necessary in a
separate R14 folder, so you do not continue to contaminate your own work.
At LAX there was one draftsman who did not want move to 2000 and did all his
work in R14. He had continuous problems when he would attempt to move up
to 2000, because his R14 dwgs would crash. Finally we motivated him to
make the change permanently and eventually his drawings stopped
crashing.
Another thing to watch out for is if the crashes
are occuring on one or two computers but not everyone, is to look at what the
operator is doing on his computer. Does he keep his Outlook or Outlook
Express open for email? Is he always listening to music? Does he
open 10 drawings in one session? These kinds of habits can crash
AutoCAD.
Jack Talsky
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My
company recently upgraded from autocad 14 to autocad 2002. I have problems
opening some cad files in autocad 2002, but I have no problem opening them in
autocad 14. Can anyone help me?
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