Topic: Autocad locks up opening dwgs

[Keith™]

This has just started happening. Whenever I open A2k14, I have it open with a blank drawing. It is named Drawing1 (well its unnamed, but you get the idea).

When I go to open another drawing, AutoCAD will load the drawing and seemingly lock up. If I hit the esc button, the drawing becomes active and the new drawing disappears.


if I open a second drawing, it opens ok, but when trying to switch between drawings, AutoCAD locks up to the point it is using 99% of the processor and I have no recourse except to kill the process.


The machine itself is certainly capable … Win10 x64 with a core i7 and 32gb ddr4
I've reinstalled AutoCAD to no avail and the update center says I'm up to date.
It just started happening today .. or at least I just recognized it happening today, it could have been that I haven't done this exact scenario in the past.


Who knows .. I'd appreciate any insight as to how to rectify this.

[MickD]

The only thing I can think of is that if you have any code loaded with event handlers that fire on open etc are not finishing cleanly(?)

[Keith™]

Nothing … this is a VM that I set up with no software except AutoCAD and the 3rd party application I am developing.

My application is netloaded so it shouldn't be causing any issues when it isn't loaded because it doesn't change anything about AutoCAD.

Reboot and repair reinstall did no good, however, I did uninstall every Autodesk product that installs with the typical installation and then only installed AutoCAD and this time it told me that I needed to download a patch … it seems to be working except I can't get it to netload my application from a network location despite the fact that I have it set as a trusted location. Copying the files to the VM works though so I can deal with that just as long as it doesn't crash every time I open a drawing.