I have opened an architects drawing in Autocad 2015, (student), and it is just displaying a blank plot, although the writing, i.e author, date and revisions etc, are all showing but nothing else. I know the drawing is there, as it is visible when I hover over the drawing tab, and in the external references palette (Fig 1).
I have gone into layer manager (Fig 2) and turned on all layers, thawed and unisolated all.
Any suggestions as to where it could be hiding please? Thanks in advance
Bruceybee.
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Hi,
what you showed in the screenshot "error1.png" is not a preview of real data, it's just a cached small image that was created at an earlier stage. That does not necessarily mean that this is within the drawing.
Let's start at the drawing size: how big is the DWG file?
If you open the drawing, change to modelspace and press <CTRL><A> ... how many objects does the property window show as selected?
When you create a new drawing and insert this (defect) one into the new drawing, do you get anything visible?
If you can upload the drawing, then show it to us, will make it easier to isolate the problem.
- alfred -
Hi,
with 225kB the file is quite empty, if your model space selection returns 0 objects (when you have thawed all layers) then there are no objects in modelspace.
So the chance to get anything back from the dwg is quite small...look at the position of the DWG, if there is a BAK file that is larger or restore the previous file from your backup.
BTW: there is no file attached.
Sorry, - alfred -