Error Message

[Anonymous]

I get the following message when I try to update a view on a drawing. Cannot coalesce given transaction with a previous identified transaction. Does anyone have an idea what this means? Some times it shows up other times everything works out perfectly fine. Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

Every atomic change which you can roll back and forth as one unit (via the
undo and redo commands) is effectively a transaction within the system.
Sometimes, some internal changes to the data (such as when you update the
view on a drawing) have to be hooked up (coalesced/attached) with the
previous transaction, so that those changes arent lost if you do an undo and
then a redo. It looks like the system failed while trying to coalesce such a
transaction. I've only seen this message once or twice, and usually it does
not manifest itself into a serious issue, and certainly not if you never use
the undo/redo commands frequently around situations when you encounter these
messages. If you send me a data set with which the issue is reproducible, I
can take a look and find out what's going on. If the data set is too big (>
8 MB), I'll send a link to a FTP site location where you can post the data
set.

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Naroo Krishnan
Inventor Development
Autodesk, Inc.
(email) narooDOTkrishnanATautodeskDOTcom
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I get the following message when I try to update a view on a drawing.
Cannot coalesce given transaction with a previous identified transaction.
Does anyone have an idea what this means? Some times it shows up other
times everything works out perfectly fine. Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

I'm getting this error as well, when I'm trying to save my IDW.

It first complains "6591328001.iam cannot be saved because a different Level of Detail representation is being edited. You must save (or close) that one before you can edit this one."

This is an absurd error message to receive because I don't have any other files open!

[rwollenhaupt]

Have you determined what is causing this problem? I started receiving the same error under the same conditions about two weeks ago. I installed SP3 about 3 or 4 weeks ago. I'm wondering if SP3 could be causing the problem.

[Anonymous]

We're getting the same error message while trying to save an .idw. The LOD of different views is a big problem we've been trying to work around a lot lately. If we use LOD's, it has this problem. If we use different subassemblies, the balloons don't give the right numbers automatically (we want one BOM per .idw). If we use LOD's from a bigger assembly for a subassembly .idw, we haven't been able to get the BOM right without overriding info. Bring it into AutoCAD and wait till next year seems to be the eternal solution (maybe it'll be intuitive then).
-Still ignorant with a headache

[pleveille]

October 21, 2009...
Problem still exists...
What IS wrong with LODs in drawings ???

[jdkriek]

Make that Sept 2012, got this error after updating an Assy then switching window tabs over to the Drawing.

[mrattray]

The "solution" is to never ever ever have both the assembly and drawing open at the same time. (When dealing with LOD's only, of course) If you're in a drawing and realize you need to make a change to the assembly you need to save and close the dawing and then open the assembly, make your changes, save, close, and then reopen the drawing. This is the only method I have found that prevents this lovely message.