3DDWF Export AutoCAD Mechanical Crash

[qalbiol]

Hello!

I am facing big problems when trying to export a DWG file in 3D to 3DDWF (.dwfx). The application crashes every 99% of the times I try, thus making it impossible to view the diagram in 3D with Navisworks Freedom for example. I have already tried...

      ... Purge and audit file, and remove all hidden / invisible objects.

      ... Copybase all wanted objects to new DWG.

Problems continue the same. Some more data: Windows 7 32bit, 4GB Ram, CPU i5-3470 @ 3.20 GHz 4 cores, ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series. I know its not the best, but its company computer and nothing to do. I am starting to think its a hardware issue.

Strange things: DWG comes from supplier, big file (40MB), lots of elements in blocks. Sometimes, when I explode a few blocks, 3DDWF is exported succesfully. So I dont understand a thing!

How can I solve this? Is there any way to export in background, like plotting (so not too much memory is used and program does not crash)?

Thanks, regards.

Enrique

[JoAnn_Hogan]

Hi Enrique,

Welcome to the community,

Do you have the lastest service packs installed for your AutoCAD?

[qalbiol]

Hi, thank you for the quick answer.

Its difficult to say, IT environment is complex. I guess I could ask IT and
see.

Regards,

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Enrique Albiol Almirall

[JoAnn_Hogan]

Which version are you working on?

You can follow this link to the service pack downloads: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-mechanical/downloads#?rows=10&sort=score

[qalbiol]

I'm on AutoCAD mechanical 2013.

I will check with IT tomorrow on service packs, and reply again...

Thanks!

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Enrique Albiol Almirall

[JoAnn_Hogan]

Ok good, Please let me know if you need help

[qalbiol]

Hello!

Long time since the last answer... Very slow IT.

Installed latest service packs and having the same problems.

Can it be a performance issue? When using smaller dwg files I have none of this problems.

Thank you!