Topic: AutoCAD 2009

[Matt__W]

PURGE, AUDIT, PURGE AGAIN, AUDIT AGAIN, TUCK-YOU-HEAD-BETWEEN-YOUR-KNEES-AND-KISS-YOU-BUTT-GOODBYE, RECOVER, RECOVERALL, EXPORT

Anything you can do to clean the files certainly won't hurt.

[M-dub]

First of all, I must say that it's uncanny how I haven't yet lost any work!  I suppose the nature of the crash has a lot to do with it because I often close one drawing before I open the next.

Secondly, I know for a fact that a few of the drawings have only consisted of one entity, on layer 0... an image file (.gp4).

Still, not bad advice...

[Mark]

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1073231 *grin*

[mjfarrell]

I have a file here, well I HAD a file here a few minutes ago;
just about ready to test the latest set up for rendering.
Close the file, try to reopen it, Fatal Error....

Right up until I start adding the materials I want to use; everything seems fine.
It has crashed so often I can now reassemble the work from pieces in under 5 minutes...

however that doesn't get the render I was after done anytime sooner.... :pissed:

[jnieman]

i had a huge amount of troubles with materials and rendering... but SP1 fixed most of it, and I dont recall for sure, but I seem to remember a relevant hotfix too.... not sure.

[mjfarrell]

installed said patch, and patchlet no changes...

[jnieman]

there's an SP2?

[sinc]

No, it's "Version 2".  That's this year's Autodesk-speak for "Service Pack 1", and you have to install "Update 1" to get it.

You know, typical Autodesk naming schemes.   :ugly:

[mjfarrell]

there is the Open close save hotfix one MUST apply after the SP1 is installed or be plagued with the Open Save Crash demon.

[KewlToyZ]

I'm just bouncing up and down in my rubber pajamas for the file change in 2010  :ugly: :pissed:

[Steve Johnson]

There is now an Update 2, example filename autocad2009lockedsp2.exe, which will change your AutoCAD 2009 (Release 23, ACADVER "17.2s (LMS Tech)") to Product service pack value "Version 3", which would have previously been "0" with no updates applied or "Version 2" with either Update 1 or Subscription Bonus Pack 1 applied.

It's obvious really, I don't understand how anybody could be confused by that.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=11899352&linkID=9240618

[sinc]

Boy, those colors are really difficult to read with some themes.

[M-dub]

I have installed all of the bonus packs, service packs etc. and ... nuthin' doin'.

Just going to keep track of the drawings it crashes on and go from there.

[mjfarrell]

I may have found a partial solution: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=11294295&linkID=9240698

While rendering drawings with textured objects, AutoCADŽ 2009-based products may run out of system memory and crash. This hotfix allows you to render some of these drawings.


However reading it carefully, I see that I may have just installed something, that may actually do nothing other than make me feel like I did something. 

[jnieman]

Yea, so don't ever brag about AutoCAD uptime or crashless time.  About a half hour after I made that post, Autocad threw a fatal error up and I lost around 15 minutes of work.  Sometimes when I'm going through and doing a lot of modeling, I get in the zone and forget to save as often... and of course AutoCAD knows this and took advantage... biding it's time... waiting... for just the right moment...

So I cuss'd, threw my hands in the air, and declared the work day over, and went out for beer.

However reading it carefully, I see that I may have just installed something, that may actually do nothing other than make me feel like I did something. 

I saw that one, and didn't install it for just that reason.