I am attempting to redraw a drawing that the file became corrupt in August, 2015.
A "FATAL ERROR" opened and the drawing file could not be recovered.
I have made dozens of drawings since without a hiccup.
Today while attempting to redraw the drawing from new and updated coordinate files, the same error box opened and gave an option to save any unsaved info and I clicked YES.
I have reopened and recovered the drawing several times and after adding to the drawing only a few text lines, the "FATAL ERROR" occurs over and over.
I have renamed the drawing and opened and the "FATAL ERROR" occurs over and over.
This is the only drawing this has ever happened and I am not doing anything different than what I have done on any other drawing. No other hiccups on any other drawing.
The last error box said "FATAL ERROR heap count"
This is CARLSON SURVEY CES, Autocad R14 based and any help will be appreciated.
A Harris, post: 357647, member: 81 wrote: I am attempting to redraw a drawing that the file became corrupt in August, 2015.
A "FATAL ERROR" opened and the drawing file could not be recovered.
I have made dozens of drawings since without a hiccup.
Today while attempting to redraw the drawing from new and updated coordinate files, the same error box opened and gave an option to save any unsaved info and I clicked YES.
I have reopened and recovered the drawing several times and after adding to the drawing only a few text lines, the "FATAL ERROR" occurs over and over.
I have renamed the drawing and opened and the "FATAL ERROR" occurs over and over.
This is the only drawing this has ever happened and I am not doing anything different than what I have done on any other drawing. No other hiccups on any other drawing.
The last error box said "FATAL ERROR heap count"
This is CARLSON SURVEY CES, Autocad R14 based and any help will be appreciated.
Open a new drawing and set up it up at the same scale, etc. as the one you are having trouble with. Once it is set up, insert your old drawing in with all items exploded. Save it and then re-open it. I have had some success doing this. Good luck. If you are still having trouble with it, email it to me and I will give it a try.
A Harris, post: 357647, member: 81 wrote: I am attempting to redraw a drawing that the file became corrupt in August, 2015.
A "FATAL ERROR" opened and the drawing file could not be recovered.
I have made dozens of drawings since without a hiccup.
Today while attempting to redraw the drawing from new and updated coordinate files, the same error box opened and gave an option to save any unsaved info and I clicked YES.
I have reopened and recovered the drawing several times and after adding to the drawing only a few text lines, the "FATAL ERROR" occurs over and over.
I have renamed the drawing and opened and the "FATAL ERROR" occurs over and over.
This is the only drawing this has ever happened and I am not doing anything different than what I have done on any other drawing. No other hiccups on any other drawing.
The last error box said "FATAL ERROR heap count"
This is CARLSON SURVEY CES, Autocad R14 based and any help will be appreciated.
Not much help now, but after having a lot of Fatal errors back in 2013 I got into the habit of write block to save a backup of the drawing. It has saved me a couple times since. I don't trust the recovery drawing.
I assume you ran the "AUDIT" command.
If it is crashing when you click the layers button then try this. Type OPTIONS, then click PREFERENCES (I think?), then set up a new one...
AUDIT
PURGE
WBLOCK
INSERT into a blank drawing
Or are you drawing one of the levels of Hell? That would crash a drawing...
It is crashing after a couple of commands, any commands. A few times it crashed immediately after opening the drawing.
Got out of the office for a few hours and came back and erased what I had done in the last few commands before the crash.
Apparently, my build of CES Survey does not like changing the width of a 2D polyline that closes to itself.
Opened the drawing and erased the boundary that I changed to 2x width. It never made another hiccup and I was able to complete the drawing. Printing it out now.
I was able to create the same effect by offseting the polyline each direction.
My CADD education is from the "blind hog found an acorn" school. Everything I know is from reading the manual, trial and error and about a dozen tips from other users in the last 25yrs.
Thanks everyone, you have given me more options.
Save it back to an R12 format, close and reload. Anything not compatible with R12 will be deleted.
Not familiar with the CES Survey, but in AutoCAD, you can set up plot styles based on the screen color of the line and have that print different widths.
Do a full purge. Exit the drawing file. Go to Explorer an delete the drawings *.ini file. Then re-open the original drawing and go under EDIT and down to CLIPBOARD. Select the COPY option and window what's left in the original drawing. Now CLOSE the original drawing. Go to FILE and down to NEW DRAWING. Select your -dwt file. Then set that drawing to your project folder and give it a totally new name. You can go ahead and set the scale etc. now. Once all that is done, go to EDIT, CLIPBOARD and select PASTE TO ORIGINAL COORDINATES.
That should cure your problems. If not, your software has become corrupted and the best fix is to do a fresh install off the Carlson web site.
