exploding Blocks crashing AutoCAD

[jeastmanGKPDZ]

Hi Everyone

I have a drawing created in ShipConstructor (by someone else) and I need to modify a part.  I therefore need to explode it but it keeps crashing my system.  I have attached the part in question.

[Patchy]

This is all I can see, but it exploded OK

[jeastmanGKPDZ]

Thanks but you are not seeing it all.  I have looked further and there are proxy objects in there.  That seems to be the real problem.  Because I have the object enabler, I see the whole thing - but I can't explode it and exporttoautocad does not work either.

Cheers,

[Patchy]

Ask the sender to send you the dxf

You can also use BOUNDARY command and get the same drawing.

[jeastmanGKPDZ]

Hi

The Boundary command, like explode causes AutoCAD to crash.  It's a real pain and I do not have the option to go back to the originator of the file.

I might print it to pdf and then convert the pdf back to AutoCAD.  It's a pain but I am running out of options.

[Patchy]

Does FLATTEN command crashes it?

[jeastmanGKPDZ]

I tried flatten but after watching the wheel spin for 10 minutes, I crashed it myself to start over.

[Patchy]

Last one ☺ try BURST

[jeastmanGKPDZ]

Hi

I tried Burst but it says 0 objects so it does not even see it.  I have written ShipConstructor as well but they have not responded yet.  It's frustrating because their help site requires one to create a Microsoft account to even get into their forums.

[Patchy]

What if when the drawing opened, you dxfout to earlier version, then make a new drawing and DXFIN?

[jeastmanGKPDZ]

Thanks but I get the same error.  I should state that it gives me this before crashing:

FATAL ERROR: Unhandled e06d736h Exception at fd44a06dh

cheers,

[Patchy]

Is this something happens recently ? A few posts here said Windows Updates crashed their Autocad.

If that's the case, you can Reset your Autocad back to Default as when it was installed.

[jeastmanGKPDZ]

It only happens when working with this file.

[Patchy]

One more try, make a new drawing, drag this bad drawing into the drawing area so it works like an insert a block then Explode it a couple times. Use a big dynamite ☺

[jeastmanGKPDZ]

hey

I am unable to copy to clipboard.

[john.vellek]

Hi @jeastmanGKPDZ,

I went to the ShipConstructor site and looked for an OE but the newest one goes back to 2016.

When I tried to open the file it produced a message indicating that it was a newer version than that so I am stuck on this.  ShipConstructor does offer trial versions of their software.  It might be worth a download to see if you can export it cleanly.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

[john.vellek · Accepted solution]

Hi @jeastmanGKPDZ,

Did you try go to the application developers site for a trial?  You could also post to their support group to see if you can get some help.

[mmichel6UEHA]

I had the dreaded north arrow sets viewport back to origin. - a block that get corrupt that assigns the north direction in a viewport. sometimes it gets corrupt and usually explode resolves this. What I did was explode the block - it crashed - use recover (hopefully you can) and when I opened the recover, it was exploded.