Audit layers are created

[Anonymous]

I have been having many issues lately with the creatin of new layers in my drawings named like this AUDIT_D_090408113943-44

The layer will be created in addition, for example, to the A-WALL layer but will take all of the A-WALL linework and put it onto the new Audit layer. Sometimes it will create many of these files and also take on layers in dynamic blocks which are very difficult to fix. Often it will change all of the layer colors to one color which is not in our standard.

I don't know why these layers are created but for some reason I feel it might be caused by refediting xref's.
I usually have to fix all of the layers I can, delete and replace blcoks if I cannot get rid of the layer though WBLOCK or AECTOACAD.

It would be wonderful to know what is cauing this to happen so that I can advise my team to not use certain practices.

Thanks for your advice.

We are on AutoCAD Architecture 2009 but strictly doing 2D drawing. (Also having scaling issues between metric and imperial . . . but that's another issue.)

[Anonymous]

I guess you know that it's corrupted content being sent to the sin bin.
If you are only using Autocad, maybe ACA using the autocad only option and
take out the ACA portion that may be the cause of it. When you install you
have the option of creating an AC only version which doesn't load the extra
aec items as this may make your drawing a little uncompatible with AC users
(consultants). However you may miss some of the great ACAD tools in ACA.
To be honest it sounds like some hardware issue (memory?) is failing and
causing corruption because what you describe is not normal behaviour. Can
you record which jobs are being touched by who and tnote who has worked on
the corrupted drawing? Are they stored on a server? Refediting can cause
cleanups to go wild but you are not using aec.


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I have been having many issues lately with the creatin of new layers in my
drawings named like this AUDIT_D_090408113943-44

The layer will be created in addition, for example, to the A-WALL layer but
will take all of the A-WALL linework and put it onto the new Audit layer.
Sometimes it will create many of these files and also take on layers in
dynamic blocks which are very difficult to fix. Often it will change all of
the layer colors to one color which is not in our standard.

I don't know why these layers are created but for some reason I feel it
might be caused by refediting xref's.
I usually have to fix all of the layers I can, delete and replace blcoks if
I cannot get rid of the layer though WBLOCK or AECTOACAD.

It would be wonderful to know what is cauing this to happen so that I can
advise my team to not use certain practices.

Thanks for your advice.

We are on AutoCAD Architecture 2009 but strictly doing 2D drawing. (Also
having scaling issues between metric and imperial . . . but that's another
issue.)

[Anonymous]

You might be right about the hardware/memory problems. Many of us have been getting the "AutoCAD is running out of memorey do you want to contiue the current task" pop up. Also we are constantly having to recover drawing but when recovered show no errors.

[Anonymous]

If you close down ACA and restart, it will clean out and dump the memory and
you will find it better. If rendering, I will do this once I am happy and
think I am about to do a final render (and my files are only small). I get
other weird errors and it always seems to be a memory issue.
>>>>>>> Windows 7 64 bit !!! 8mb RAM.

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You might be right about the hardware/memory problems. Many of us have been
getting the "AutoCAD is running out of memorey do you want to contiue the
current task" pop up. Also we are constantly having to recover drawing but
when recovered show no errors.

[Anonymous]

Curse - it crashes too often
Blessing - the recover tool seems to be quite robust.


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You might be right about the hardware/memory problems. Many of us have been
getting the "AutoCAD is running out of memorey do you want to contiue the
current task" pop up. Also we are constantly having to recover drawing but
when recovered show no errors.

[Anonymous]

O RLY? We have a couple users who have this happen to them on a
somewhat regular basis (ACA2008). It seems to happen because of
annotative scaling. In 95% of the cases, it is brought on when creating
a Reflected Ceiling Plan, and xrefing the floor plan in. Usually they
get the dismissable warning that the drawing needs to be recovered.
I'll look into a possible hardware issue.

Nathan wrote:
> To be honest it sounds like some hardware issue (memory?) is failing and
> causing corruption because what you describe is not normal behaviour.
>

[Anonymous]

There are users who have a solid system but I have accepted crashes as part
of using ACA.

"Anthony Mason" wrote in message
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O RLY? We have a couple users who have this happen to them on a
somewhat regular basis (ACA2008). It seems to happen because of
annotative scaling. In 95% of the cases, it is brought on when creating
a Reflected Ceiling Plan, and xrefing the floor plan in. Usually they
get the dismissable warning that the drawing needs to be recovered.
I'll look into a possible hardware issue.

Nathan wrote:
> To be honest it sounds like some hardware issue (memory?) is failing and
> causing corruption because what you describe is not normal behaviour.
>