Compare dwt-templates - new template fails to bind sometimes

[Peter_Studio-LST]

Hello,

For our transition to CIVIL 3D we made new templates (layernames, some settings, annotations,...).

Our new template seemed to work fine but sometimes it refuses to bind xrefs giving the error "Error: At least one of the specified xrefs failed to bind for an unknown reason."

I've rebuilt the template 2 times from scratch but it keeps giving that error while our old template doesn't.

Is there a way to compare drawings/dwt files with each other? As far as we can find it has to be some sort of setting that causes it.

These are the settings we have changed but we also reversed  them to see if it caused issues

- Geoposition - Mapcsassign - lambert 72 EPSG-code 31370

- Imageframe: 2

- Wipeoutframe: 2

- PDFSHX: 0

- MAPIOPTIONS: turned of shift select images

If we xref  the "corrupted" drawing in the new template it doesn't bind but if we xref it in our old template it does bind. So it must be something in the new template itself that is causing it. 

We work with CIVIL 3D 2024 on a Windows 10 OS

We have tried the following things:

- Rebuilt from scratch using the old template as base. 

- Purge, audit and recover of the template and the individual drawings that have the error

- -Purge with regapp (purged all settings).

- Zombie Killer (proxy remover)

- Made sure the affected  drawings didn't have any civil or AEC objects. Pure 2D drawings.

- using E-transmit to bind --> doesn't work for new template.

- Completely cleaning out all styles out of the template.

- Making the Xrefs super simple (only a few polylines - no civil objects, no blocks, no attributes)

- Using overlay instead of attach

- Insert instead of bind

- Absolute or relative path doesn't matter

- tried to bind the drawing in Vanilla Autocad 2018 - did not work either

- tried on different machines.

Attached are the following files

- new template: LST-CAD-2024

- old template: civiel

- e-transmit with example of drawing that won't bind (called Will_not_bind) and one that will bind (Binds_without_Problems)

Hopefully there is a solution for this problem. As Listed above we have  tried many things already and are probably forgetting some attempts.

[tcorey]

Try setting your path type to full path.

[Peter_Studio-LST]

Did it bind when u used full paths?

We already tried making the paths absolute and I just retried making every xref a full path but the error remains.