I'm getting a lot of crashes with C3d 2015 and it's always when I go to start a new drawing from the new get-started tab and choose to select a template.
Doesn't happen every time, but maybe 50% of the time. I've submitted at least 4 error reports this morning alone. Is there a way to disable that tab completely? so that new tab is blank?
I didn't have any trouble until I turned the layout tabs on, but if I have them off I discovered that the open dwgs no longer show in the window dropdown and that was very inconvenient as there was no quick way to move from one drawing to another.
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I just stumbled across the command in another thread. It's NEWTABMODE. I've set it to 0 and now will see if that ends all the crashes.
albionpjl wrote: ...that was very inconvenient as there was no quick way to move from one drawing to another.
FYI, you can use the Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab keyboard shortcuts to cycle through open drawings as well.
And to move from Layout to Layout, you can use Ctrl+Page Up and Ctrl+Page Down.
Well yes, and I HAD forgotten those commands so thanks, but you can't use them to go straight to the one you want. When the files were listed in the window dropdown I could just click on the one I wanted.
Unfortunately turning off the start page hasn't stopped the crashes so it may be related to having the tabs turned on. However I will turn off hardware acceleration (again) first to see if that reduces the issue.
True, you can't jump straight to the file you want that way, but if you're not working with more than a few drawings open at a time anyway, it's still probably faster to just Ctrl+Tab through all your open drawings to get to it.
I turned my MENUBAR on and saw that all of my open drawings are showing up in the Window dropdown regardless of whether I have the File Tabs on or off, Layout tabs on or off, the Ribbon on or off, or NEWTABMODE on or off. It looks like that may be a separate issue you are having.
I fixed an installation here that was crashing when using tabs in the drawings by disabling online content.
I know it sounds unrelated, but after some deep searching into WER reports I found that WSCommCntr was crashing the program.
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I have plain 2015 and started experiencing the same problem. I remembered from another time that it was the template defined in Files that was causing the problem. I erased the template and renamed another file to that same name. I had no more problems after that.
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All Alt and W seems to do is activate the Window drop down menu. It doesn't affect whether or not the new tab page shows so far as I can see. Thanks anyway for the suggestion.
The person who said there migt be something wrong with my dropdown was correct. I don't know which settings altered it but it's now showing the open drawings like it should. I've got the tabs turned off again, the command NEWTABMODE removed the new tab page, and I've remade the template that may have been causing the crashing (only time will tell if that has fixed THAT issue).