Hi Tom
These "happenings" occure to me. I have a few processers I go through to resolve problems. I am using ace2012
You have done one Reboot, I always power off at the mains power and reboot This should reset any registers in a PC. It did when I was a Mainframe service bloke.
Retag does not always work for me.
Changing the catalogue data via componant edit sometimes does not get reflected in the BOM.
There is a file that I delete that helps.
Close all drawings and ACE.
C:\Users\<your name>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\AutoCAD Electrical 2012\R18.2\enu\Support\User
In this directory there will be a <Project Name>.mdb The one that is mucking up.
Delete this file. I use the shift key so that it will not go to the recycle bin. It will be recreated when you restart ACE and open the offending project.
Sometimes I need to delete the offending symbol, purge the drawing and re-enter the symbol.
This does not always fix the problem.
Sometimes if I go and do some drawing somewhere else and come back to the recalcetrant symbol and it works.
In my case there is a virus program that rund every few seconds and does a spot check that I feel mucks up ACE but I cant prove that due to company policy.
If someone has a more elegant solution i would like to read there solution.
In the AutoCAD forum there is a robust discussion re AutoDESk should be fixing bugs not adding new "buggy" features. I could not agree more.
Keep an eye on memory use via windows task manager as this can be an indication that ACE will much up.
As an example: my system does a virus scan mid day Mondays. At the end it leaves memory full and only very basic ACE commands work.
Once this process is finished I do the Reboot sequence I outlined above.
ACE also fills up memory.
This is just my experience and I hope it helps.
Cheers john Q
