Need Help! Sheet Set Manager Freezes

[EJMartinez]

Hello,

Today, while opening my drawings, Civil 3d 2012 would freeze on me. I just get the blue cirlce of death. I could not access any of my drawings. So i had to take the backup drawing and open that one. I then made edits to that drawing. when it came to opening the sheet set manager to plot the whole set, autoCAD civil 3d 2012 just freezes. I tried waiting for it but its been an hour now with the same blue circle of death.  I figured that my drawings from yesterday had the sheet set manager open when i saved them. same applies to many other drawings. This is my first time experienceing this. Any ideas or suggestions would be great.

[Joe-Bouza]

your drawings are probably fine. you can turn off SSM byt setting SSMAUTOOPEN = 0, this will get you going.

If you are on a busy network, and or your SS is big, and you have a lot of SSM users the network can get bogged down because by default SSM pings the server every 60 seconds to see if any fields need updating. multiply that time by users, and sheets and the pipe fills up pretty quick.

you can play with  the SSM system variables to help you could up the poltime to 600, that helps or

SSMSHEETSTATUS = 2 , SSMPOLTIME = 600, WORKS FOR ME.

[EJMartinez]

I set my SSMAUTOOPEN to 0 and I can now open my drawings. Thanks. only problem I have is that I want to open the sheet set manager so that I can plot a set of drawings using the sheet set manager. but when I click on it, it freezes. I am the only user on this network that uses the sheet set manager. I tried the POLTIME but no luck.

[Joe-Bouza]

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Improvi...

Note FIELDEVAL by default = 31; that means any field in your SS refresh for alomst every command - set it to a lower number and work you way up

http://docs.autodesk.com/ACD/2010/ENU/AutoCAD%202010%20User%20Documentation/index.html?url=WS1a91938...

I'm going with turning windows off-line files off

SSMSHEETSTATUS =2  if you are Bold try = 0 ; refresh manually

SSMPOLLTIME = 600

FIELDEVAL = 5

[Jeff_M · Accepted solution]

Ihad this same issue with SSM a while back, also in C3D2012. The only thing I found to get back working was to do a repair install of C3D (it may have been a reinstall, but I'm 80% sure it was just a repair). I thought I had posted about it here but a quick search didn't turn it up.

[EJMartinez]

Thanks Jeff. I had to do this the other day. I had tried a Repair but the problem still occurred. So I then done a Reinstall and now it all works well.