More than one drawing open... Do not retain their names.

[fastdesignservices]

AutoCAD 2014, 64 bit.  When i open a dwg, all is well.  When i open a second drawing it does not open with its own name.  It comes in as Drawing1.dwg or Drawing2.dwg and so on as open other drawings. 

So if I make any changes to the subsequent drawings, I have to do a saveas for each.  Why is this?  Why doesn't my drawing come in under it's own name so i can do a qsave and move on?

Thanks!

Jenn

[imadHabash]

i think that this case happen if only you make a new CAD drawing by using Ctrl+n which mean that you start a new one.BUT by opening an existing drawing appeared with other name ... this is weird.

[pendean]

Read this, fix is dramatic: http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/when-opening-a-dwg-file-autocad-opens-also-a-second-one-drawing1-...

[fastdesignservices]

Just to give you more information...

This has actually been going on for more than a year now.  I installed 2014 on a Windows 7 Home platform 4GB RAM. 

I thought upgrading to Windows 7 Ultimate and giving the computer 8GB of RAM would help, but it has not. 

So this is the second time I've installed this program and had this same problem.

I open a drawing I'm working on and someone calls to ask question or make changes to another drawing. 

I open the second drawing by using the (+ Tab).  I'm not creating new drawings, just opening existing ones. 

Sometimes I make changes, sometimes I don't, but if I need to save anything, I have to do a SAVEAS because the susequent drawings

come in a Drawing 1... etc.

So I don't see this as a program installation issue.  Anyother ideas?  A setting I'm missing?

J

[pendean]

Win7 Home: nice fast brisk OS.
Win7 Enterprise: resource hog equaly to AutoCAD.
Wish you had asked someone first before doing all of that.

To speed up AutoCAD performance, you needed to install 16G Ram or more, have a dedicated video card with it's own RAM, swapped out your slow drive to an SSD drive, and run it all on an Intel i5 or i7 processor clocked (or booster-enabled) at a speed of 3Ghz or better.

Reread the link I posted: there is no quick fix. Reinstall or creating a new WIndows User account may be what needs to happen next if you tried simply resetting AutoCAD 2014 first and it did nothing http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-...

[sthompson1021 · Accepted solution]

I'm using 2014 here as well, using the + tab will result in the behavior you are describing. I think it's programed for new drawings so even if you open a dwg file instead of a dwt file, autocad see's it as a new drawing. I still use classic workspace so I just use the file to open new drawings. 

[nestly2]

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fastdesignservices wrote:

 I open a drawing I'm working on and someone calls to ask question or make changes to another drawing. 

I open the second drawing by using the (+ Tab).  I'm not creating new drawings, just opening existing ones. 

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I'm curious how you are opening a specific drawing by using the + Tab button?  As far as I know, (left) clicking that button simply opens the template file specified for QNEW.

[sthompson1021]

If you change the "files of type" from dwt to dwg you can navigate to whatever drawing you are looking for.

[jggerth]

So, the answer to the OPs issues, is to right click on the +Tab icon, select Open instead of the default New, and browse to the drawing he wants?

[sthompson1021]

No, that still results in drawing 2 or 3... No matter whether you right click or left click it still brings up QNEW in the command line. I don't think you can change the behavior. That's why I said I use the file button to open a new dwg.

edit: I should have checked first. Right clicking and choosing open will let you open a dwg with the right name.

[nestly2]

OK, I see it now.  If no template is specified for QNEW, then left clicking (+ Tab) causes a QNEW (Select Template) dialog to open, but the selected drawing is still considered a "new" drawing, thus the filename is not retained.  Right clicking > Open actually calls the _open command and the selected  drawing opens as a drawing, not as a template.   I never knew that before because I've never not had a template specified.

[jggerth]

interesting -- I;m trying it on C3d 2014, and right clicking gives me a choice of New, Open, Save All, & Close Al.  Using Open just open the drawing I select, not Drawing 2 or Drawing 3.

STARTUP sysvar is set to 0

[fastdesignservices]

No big deal, upgrading my computer happens every year anyway.

I'll try the new Windows user thing.

OR

Not use the +Tab to open my drawings!

Lol, I guess I'll just open them from the top folder.

Thanks all.

Jenn

[sthompson1021]

I know we kind of got off track a little, but you can use the + tab. You just have to right click and choose open. Then the drawing should open with the right name.

[CAD_SNOOK]

What about using the old-fashioned CTRL-O from the keyboard?  Is that passe?  CTRL-P, -S, -SHIFT-S helps keep my left hand busy...:-)

[fastdesignservices]

What?  Remove my hand from the mouse!  Unheard of!  Lol. 

For me,using the top folder icon and not using the TABs, is working best.

Thanks!
jenn