I was using Advance steel in the morning all fine (Didn't mess around with any settings or system files. I was only outputting some single part plate details). Closed it. Went to use it again in the afternoon and now it is opening a blank Drawing1 on start up and continuously bringing up a window saying: unrecognized version and cannot be read.
I have followed the solution: https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Unrecognized-versi...
I have deleted all files in the templates folder and created a new template file so it is the only thing in there.
I have made sure all Advance Steel/AutoCAD/Licensing updates have been downloaded and installed
The error also appears whenever I open any of my previously working .dwg / .dxf / .dwt files.
I have even tried every value of the STARTUP command and the error still persists when opening any drawing file.
Update:
I have backed up all my files. Uninstalled AS2024 and re-Installed AS2025.
This seems to have fixed the problem for all of 10 minutes.
I was doing some test loading of random .dwg's from my backups, I was about 5 files loaded until one of them triggered the error. I then tried to open the previous 4 files and each one of them now had the error. I closed AS and re-opened and was met with the blank Drawing1 .dwg instead of the fresh template I had just set up along with a waterfall of error windows.
I uninstalled/re installed again, tried some different .dwgs and same result after a few files.
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