Help for crash.

Sorry if this same issue has been brought up before, but I have looked
everywhere to no avail. We have a few drawings here that will crash AutoCAD
2002 when we go into the Layer Properties Window, and right click on any of
the layers (the right click itself seems to be the cause). Sometimes it
crashes straight to the desktop, and sometimes it leaves a fatal error
message, and others still it leaves an illegal operation message. We have
tried to recover, purge and audit the files, and everything looks fine.
Every one of our computers has this same problem with these same files, with
sometimes different messages, but with AutoCAD always crashing (sometimes
windows getting stuck as well). We are all running Windows 98 SE with all
the patches for our hardware and software (even AutoCAD 2002 with the latest
SP). It is not a hardware problem because it happens on several different
computers, (from a P3 700Mhz, to a P4 1.8Ghz), all running Windows 98SE.
Also I thought it might be a conflict with Norton, so I uninstalled that and
installed AVG Anti-Virus (cannot run with NO anti-virus software) and still
crashes. I am at my wits end to solve this problem, and the only
work-around, rather than a select all layers option, we have to go through
and select layers by hand...this is unacceptable. Any help from you guys
out there would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

Try inserting the bad drawing into a new one.
Use an * before the drawing name to insert it exploded.

 

We have tried that as well, again with the same results. Thanks anyways for
the suggestion.

 

Hi.
Two things you could try.

1. Wblock the whole drawing and open the wblock as a drawing, this often
gets rid of any odd layers and things, works like a big Purge (make sure you
don't have any frozen layers, these would be lost in the wblock).

2. Open the drawing in Intellycad and save as AutoCAD drawing, Intellycad
can open drawings AutoCAD has problems with.

Best Regards
Baz

 

I'd definitely consider obtaining one copy of Win2000Pro and see if it
stops the problems on one machine. Then go from there.

John B

johnbogie btinternet.com
Put the "at" in the gap.

 

I believe so but I wouldn't take my word for it.

I'm sure someone else here can give a definitive answer.

John B

johnbogie btinternet.com
Put the "at" in the gap.