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CAD Forums => CAD General => Topic started by: Craig on November 04, 2003, 12:56:38 PM

Title: 2002 Question
Post by: Craig on November 04, 2003, 12:56:38 PM: Well, lets see how much you guys know your stuff on this newer version of ACAD. We installed the bonus tools yesterday and they work great but now have noticed that a majority of our main autocad tools no longer function. Some that won't work are:

appload (I did get it to auto load it)
properties
eattext
meetnow
publishtoweb
vbarun

and many others. Any ideas what has happened?
Title: 2002 Question
Post by: daron on November 04, 2003, 01:01:55 PM: Have you ever used repair in the control panel?
Title: 2002 Question
Post by: Craig on November 04, 2003, 01:02:41 PM: Guess not, never ran into a problem as such

What control panel?
Title: 2002 Question
Post by: rugaroo on November 04, 2003, 01:35:05 PM: Daron -

Don't you mean the RS (reset) command?

Rug
Title: 2002 Question
Post by: daron on November 04, 2003, 01:56:22 PM: Quote from: rugaroo
Daron -

Don't you mean the RS (reset) command?

Rug

No. Whenever I have a problem, the first thing I do is repair the software install under control panel/add remove programs. In XP you can go in and hit the change button and in the dialog box that comes up, make it repair the corrupted file. This usually helps. I don't know if it's possible in pre-XP.
Title: 2002 Question
Post by: Craig on November 04, 2003, 02:08:18 PM: Well, I haven't done alot so I just removed 2002 and reinstalled it. Everything came back like it should but when I installed the bonus tools they screwed up. Guess that is the problem
Title: 2002 Question
Post by: rugaroo on November 04, 2003, 02:14:48 PM: Daron...Now I see where yous was headed.

Craig - What version of the bonus tools are you using? Have you installed all of 2002's service packs?

Rug
Title: 2002 Question
Post by: Craig on November 04, 2003, 02:26:34 PM: Never mind fellla's! Everyone just needs to line up and kick me in the ass. Everyone take a number. I finally found the damn problem after going through several uninstalls. It wasn't the Express Tools, it was in the Options dialog. Under the Open and Save tab down in the bottom right corner:
ObjectARX Applications was set to disable load on demand.

I meant to disable the XREF demand loading. Oh well, I am now the king of Install/Unistall 10 times in an hour.
All hail the JackAss has arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!! :twisted:
Title: 2002 Question
Post by: CADaver on November 04, 2003, 02:28:25 PM: "BONUS TOOLS" ??? They were called "BONUS TOOLS" for R13, if that is the version you're using, I think you may be outta luck. Loading the old versions of Bonus/Express tools may conflict with functions that are now in the core program, and many of the old ARX based functions will not work in the newer ACAD Releases.

Express tools for R2002 were/are not free and need to be purchased from AutoDESK. Express tools for R2004 were free, in the box with the software.
Title: 2002 Question
Post by: Craig on November 04, 2003, 02:37:17 PM: I did install the Express Tools, just used to calling them Bonus Tools
Title: 2002 Question
Post by: daron on November 04, 2003, 02:53:54 PM: Ahh! Sorry Craig. I didn't think of that solution. I did the same thing when I first loaded ACAD2002 on other machines. Mine worked fine, but everybody else's was screwed up. I had to call my reseller. They are actually smarter than they appear.