topic Re: Application not found in Vault Forum

Application not found

Winks87 — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:58:57 GMT

Usually I open vaulted autocad drawings thru autocad, but the other day I was in a hurry and double clicked an Autocad Mechanical drawing in Vault. It asked me if I wanted to check out the file, I said no, then it downloads, but will not open Autocad - it tells me "Application not found". I normally dont use this workflow, but this sounds like something is not working correctly... any ideas?

This is Vault Professional 2016 build 21.1.4 Update 1

Autocad Mechanical 2016 buillt on: M.107.0.0 SP1

Re: Application not found

upchurt — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 23:07:20 GMT

Hi James,

Thanks for contacting using the Vault forums, I would be happy to assist you with this file opening problem.

I have seen similar issues with applications not launching from the Vault client. You may need to change some settings in your vault client. Please goto Tools -> Options then select 'Open' next to the 'Invoke with Double-Click' option:

Also please check under the 'Open File behavior settings' button:

then make sure that the correct version fo AutoCAD mechanical is listed:

If the right version is not listed here you may need to reinstall the vault client to get it to recognize your current version of AutoCAD Mechanical.

Let me know if changing either of these settings helps or if there is anything else I can assist with.

-Trent

Re: Application not found

Winks87 — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:14:56 GMT

Thanks Trent, tried this with no success...I will post if I find a solution.

Re: Application not found

upchurt — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:56:23 GMT

Hi James,

Please do let me know what you find out.

Another thing I was wondering was - if you get the file in the Vault client then goto the working folder and double click it to open. Do you see any error messages there or does the file open correclty in AutoCAD Mechanical?

-Trent

Re: Application not found

Mark.Lancaster — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 02:36:31 GMT

I'm with upchurt (last posting)... It sounds like the WIndows file extension association for (AutoCAD) .DWG is not set to the AutoCAD or Autodesk DWG Launcher..

Re: Application not found

Winks87 — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:15:38 GMT

Ok, I tried that, did a "get", went to working folder and dbl click - it opens Autocad Mechanical. No problems there... I will continue to figure this out and post when I find something.

Re: Application not found

upchurt — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:48:04 GMT

Hi James,

I think Mark is onto the fix here - try setting the DWG to default to opening with the DWG Launcher.

Let me know if this works or if you need any more help with this error.

-Trent

Re: Application not found

Winks87 — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:54:27 GMT

Sorry for the delay...tried setting it to default, no luck. I guess I will try reinstalling the client. Really didnt want to do this but I have to get this to work. Thanks for all the suggestions, I dont know what I would do without these forums!

Re: Application not found

bob_holland — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:56:35 GMT

@Winks87,

Before you reinstall the client, you might want to first try and just reset the AutoCAD for the user so that the secondary installer will re-register the AutoCAD application with all of the appropriate actions:

Please try that and let us know of your results.

Thank you.

Re: Application not found

Winks87 — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:40:48 GMT

Thank you Trent & Bob, the reset utility corrected this. I will work thru customization to see where I goofed this up. Might be the #*@# profile....I dont like profiles...