topic Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states?? in AutoCAD LT Forum

AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:59:46 GMT

Hi,

I'm having a problem when editing a block with visibility states, that whenever I click on the visibility states button on the ribbon to bring up the states menu AutoCAD LT freezes and crashes. Has anyone had the same problem or know a work around?

Cheers

Mark

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

pendean — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:12:57 GMT

Your LT version is...? Is it fully up to date?
Your Windows version is...?
Is the problem only with this one dynblock? Only in this file? Or it happens to all dynblocks and all visibility states in all files and with all blocks?

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:16:09 GMT

LT version is 2016

Yes fully up to date

Windows 10 Pro

Happens to all dynamic blocks that have visibility states

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

pendean — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:40:05 GMT

What is you video card? Have you tried turning off features in GRAPHICSCONFIG pop-up to see if any of that helps?
Are you setting dwg-save to something much lower than 2013dwg file format?

Is Win10 new? LT2016 is 2+years old now, it worked fine with Dynblocks back then for us (but we were in Win7).

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:48:33 GMT

Video Card is Intel HD Graphics 530 with NVidia GeForce GTX 960M

Only saving down to 2013 as the other license for the company is 2014.

Win10 is new

Tried changing the graphicsconfig settings but still crashes

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

pendean — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:58:36 GMT

I could only find one other instance of this in these forums, see if the tips offered there can help https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autocad-2014-dynamic-block-crash-with-block-editor/td-p/5232933

Start ABOUT command and post back the exact version it lists for LT2016 please.

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:06:21 GMT

Product Version: M.49.0.0 AutoCAD LT 2016

I will have a look and see if this helps

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

pendean — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:14:53 GMT

You don't have SP1 update installed: go get it, it may help. it never installs on its own, and you never installed it.

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:27:58 GMT

Downloaded the service pack SP1 but still it's still crashing

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

ryan.bales — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:33:55 GMT

Is hardware acceleration on? If so shut if off and see if it still crashes.

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:12:30 GMT

Just tried Ryan and unfortunately it still crashes.

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

ryan.bales — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 14:28:30 GMT

Are you submitting any error reports?

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 14:30:51 GMT

It doesn't allow me to. The program just freezes and I end up having to go to the task manager to shut it down. I never have an opportunity to submit an error form

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

ryan.bales — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:16:54 GMT

And this is any drawing as in a new drawing? Or just any existing drawing with dynamic blocks?

It's possible that its related to Windows 10 and .Net.

It might be good to upload a drawing for us to test and see if we get similar results.

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:29:38 GMT

It seems to be on any drawing where I have visibility states on a dynamic block.

I have attached our drawing template for you to try, there are a number of dynamic block within the template i've tried various blocks and it crashes on all of them.

On the layout page the contractor & client logos are setup as drop downs in a dynamic block. if you go to the block editor and hit visibility states in the ribbon the program freezes and won't respond.

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

pendean — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:50:01 GMT

>>>>..On the layout page the contractor & client logos...<<<
I can change these in your file's layout without crashing at all. I did not see any errors in your file either.

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:53:28 GMT

Thanks for having a look.

Changing them in the layout isn't the issue, the problem I'm having is that when I enter the block editor and click on the visibility states button on the ribbon to add some more logos etc that is when the program freezes

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

ryan.bales — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:07:51 GMT

Are you sure the dialog box isn't simply off screen? ALT+Spacebar should allow you to move it back if so. The Visibility States button pulls up a dialog and if off screen LT will appear frozen.

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

pendean — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:14:39 GMT

Enter the editor on your PC in this file, and post a full monitor screenshot to capture everything, and post it here (keep it full size please).

Do you know how to use the free screen capture tool in Windows? here is quick review to post the image, not to dump it into an MSWord document or anything else https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13776/windows-use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots

Re: AutoCAD LT crashes when I click on visibility states??

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:35:15 GMT

Ryan it seems that the dialogue box could be off screen as I can move the mouse around etc but pressing alt+spacebar brings up a menu with options to move/size or close but i've tried to move the dialogue box if it was off screen but with no success.

Pendean.

Snip shots attached