{"id":125,"date":"2008-04-14T16:38:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T11:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/125.htm"},"modified":"2020-04-04T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T09:37:38","slug":"previewing-or-plotting-certain-layouts-makes-autocad-hang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/previewing-or-plotting-certain-layouts-makes-autocad-hang\/","title":{"rendered":"Previewing or Plotting Certain Layouts Makes AutoCAD HANG!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><small>By <strong>R. Kamalathasan<\/strong>, Assistant Manager (Projects), The Magnum Group<\/small><\/em><br \/>\n<strong><big><big>We<\/big><\/big><\/strong> experienced another strange problem in AutoCAD this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE PROBLEM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We received<\/strong> a base plan file from our client with several layouts and xref files to attach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>After finishing work<\/strong> on the drawing we tried to plot the file and found that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">AutoCAD hangs during previewing or plotting certain layout tabs!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT WE DID<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nWhen we tried the &#8216;Audit&#8217; command<\/strong> on the base plan file, we found 2 errors and repaired them. But when we tried to preview that particular layout tab, AutoCAD still hung.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThen we tried the &#8216;Recovery&#8217; option<\/strong> on the same file. This revealed 2 more errors, which we repaired. But AutoCAD still hung during previewing or plotting that particular layout tab.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nWe decided to unload the xref file<\/strong> attached to that particular layout tab and again tried previewing the layout tab. The preview worked fine!<\/p>\n<p><strong>So the problem was due to the particular xref file<\/strong> attached to the base plan drawing. We decided to drill down into it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When we tried the &#8216;Recovery&#8217; option<\/strong> on the xref file, we found 21 errors! We fixed all of them, loaded the recovered xref file into the base plan and tried to plot the layout tab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It worked great!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONCLUSION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Please make sure that all the xref files as well as your working file are error free before plotting.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This will save you a lot of time and avoid getting into a nerve wracking situation if you are in a hurry to submit the drawings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By R. Kamalathasan, Assistant Manager (Projects), The Magnum Group We experienced another strange problem in AutoCAD this week. THE PROBLEM We received a base plan file from our client with several layouts and xref files to attach. 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