@TheCADnoob wrote:
@jkulpa wrote:
@TheCADnoob wrote:
I just pegged the OP as a very young member as being overtly hyperbolic and negative and one not really seeking answers but looking for a pound of flesh. I agree there is a breadth of knowledge here, I've got 4 different CADs on my machine and i didn't have to be nasty to get that information.
I am looking for answers, maybe you shouldn't be so condescending and try to offer up some help like @Anonymous and @Alfred.NESWADBA have. I've answered everyone's questions as to what I have been running and uploaded a drawing that I stated crashed on me just yesterday.
EDIT: I also run 3 CAD programs, the other 2 having a narrow scope, so I don't use them as often as CAD.
This was in response to jgreth not you.
If you were here for answers it wouldn't have taken a page an a half to get you to come close to posting something substantive to work with. Not to mention your pre-concluded answer sits in the title of this thread post. As you described them, your problems started with years of crashing, updates, materials, and it not working. The tone of your comments have been negative so in total if you find that my apt description of your activities thus far as being condescending to you, then can i take it that you too disagree with your behavior?
Look Ive been there and been pissed off. I've even engaged in flame wars with bad service providers on twitter. but all i was looking for was for you to bring it down a notch and try to let us help you off the away from the cliff. This is why i asked what it was you had done thus far to solve the problem. Your answer to me was that you had IT set up the system to run CAD. If this is so, they owe you some money cause its not working.
Ive looked into you file as well and its behaving for me. I too did find several missing xrefs. I also found there are several regapps and several small drawing sized blocks that arent referenced. If you delete everything out of your drawing there are around 600 ghost items in there as well. I would try cleaning up the drawing (purge, overkill -purge regapps and potential a few more purges to get anything that was still hanging out) to only the elements that you need and then WBLOCK it out and see if it helps.
You're talking about me, to jgreth, so it is pertinent.
I did come here for answers, my question, plain as day, is in the subject line. I am looking for an alternative program, because apparently to get this program to work properly on a 3MB file it takes a village of computer specialists. There wouldn't be over a million posts on this forum if it worked as it should.
I'm frustrated with this program because it crashes, on a small file, when doing essentially nothing. For instance, if I simply click on the edit materials button, it immediately gives me a fatal error and kills the program. This has been happening now every time I try to edit a material, not once have I actually been able to edit anything.
If I was running a >25 MB file size, with 3D shapes and everything else that I have done before with a subpar computer, then yea, I understand the crash. A <5MB file, in 2D, when all my resources, according to the Performance Monitor are well under 50% utilization? That's ridiculous.
I know one of you mentioned you've never had it crash since version R14 or something. Well I would like to know how you did it. In every office I've worked in, CAD is always the butt of a joke or cause for a scene when someone loses whatever they'd been working on since their last save. It would be nice if Autodesk pushed their new releases back to every other year and actually give themselves time to work out the bugs before releasing. I just read that there have already been 3 hotfixes and an upcoming service pack for 2017. Instead of new features, I want stability.