My AutoCAD session is in the process of locking up!

[Gold Metal Flake]

Wheeeee! Look at it not go! I wonder how many minutes of work I'm gonna lose this time!

Place yer bets!

[Gold Metal Flake]

1. Holy crap, it finally recovered.

SAVE!

Ahh. Damn hatch commend.

[madinmaryland]

2. What version are you running?

2006 here. Had more problems with that happening in 2000/2002

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. 2006. It's related to having a large and complex model...

and being zoomed out and then trying to hatch a zone. The computer then must identify what to hatch and what to ignore and there is too much info I guess. Anyway, it's easy to do, but otherwise 2006 is fairly stable if the computer itself is. We migrated from inventor 8 with ACAD 2004 to Inventor 10 with ACAD 2006 and I am still not used to 'publish".

Our drawings contain a model and layout sheets, typically 15-20 sheets for a flight solar panel drawing. With Publish, we have to create new publish profiles for each plot config. We STILL can't just select a drawing and send it to any printer at any size we want. If it's set up to go to the Canon and be printed B size, there is no easy way to send it to the HP at A size. No, gotta create a profile, then open each sheet and select that profile. There are several 3rd party plotting solutions that allow you to select a file, describe where to send it and what size, tell it to ignore the model and go. ACAD just sucks. Oh, and they STILL have not integrated Express tools.

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