Tim Nelson Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Every once in a while I get this Autocad error message when I try to save a drawing. "- - - - .dwg has a command in progress. Hit enter to cancel or retry". And of course I had NO commands in progress. So the only way to save my drawing was by typing in the "quit" command. Now its happening very frequently for some reason and I have no idea why. Has anybody else found a solution to this, or know why this happens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izrut Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 re-install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Nelson Posted July 27, 2004 Author Share Posted July 27, 2004 Umm, no thanks... I think it might have something to do with the shade mode, since I am modeling now and changing views a lot. I read something on the Autodesk support site about this, so maybe its just a bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutaj Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Did it lock up while doing an autosave? and what version of Acad. Those problems I remeber were all over the place in 2000 and 2000i. 2002, 2004 and 2005 have been pretty good to me so far. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 I had that problem as well. 2004. Haven't really modeled in Autocad since I installed 2005. I was always able to save my drawing somehow without loosing any changes. Can't remember exactly how though. It has something to do I think with being locked in the orbit command I think. At least, I think that was my problem. Can you right-click and exit the command? Don't give up, troubleshoot the problem. It's apparently pretty common. Don't reinstall!! I know you said you wouldn't do that, but I'm saying it too!! Don't do it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izrut Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 just a tip - hope that may help - pres ESC several times next time there is an error - it should CANCEL the command... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Iv'e also had the problem several times. The only way I could get around it is to type "save" in the command line. -Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 just a tip - hope that may help - pres ESC several times next time there is an error - it should CANCEL the command... LOL!!! If only the obvious was what we were missing. I'm sure we've all tried that more than a few dozen times with no luck with this particular glitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izrut Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Eric I don't know if U did or did not press the ESC button! So the reason why U are so affected from my "tip" would stay a mystery for me .I tald U all the right way to deal fast with the problem - RE_INSTALL! and then if u r still willing ask the gyes from autodesk why is this happening! in other case I think U R waisting your valiuabl time... cheers all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Reinstalling will not fix a glitch. A glitch is a glitch. It will still be there after the reinstall. And the fact that 3 people are now stating they've had the same issue further convinces me that reinstalling Autocad will not fix anything, and will only waste more time by the time we've reconfigured all of our paths and custom buttons and miscellaneous settings inside of autocad. No offense, but the "esc" key was probably the first thing any of us hit as daily production users of Autocad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izrut Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 U R right it's the first KEY to hit But as U know yourself sometimes one strike is not enough! if the problem is because of changed defalt setings and adding different additional software THE REINSTALL will fix the problem! If it is a bug the people who wrote the code for the software will fix the problem! So Boyz and Girlz I rest my case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Eloy Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 Ok, chill out, guys... That problem's been really common with release 2004. We have been experiencing it quite often at our ATC. I'm not sure it's abug, because we have 50 licenses running (all installed via Ghost) and only some machines have that annomally. What I normally do is to start a new command and then end it. Undo is a good one. That normally works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harjeet Singh Posted July 28, 2004 Share Posted July 28, 2004 We also have this issue in some machines. We noticed that working in shademode has more possibilities of this error. Multiple files opened in shademode even worse. Reducing Dynamic tessellation helped us a lot to reduce occurance of this message. In preferences dialog goto System Tab and click Properties in 3D graphic Display box. Reduce both surface and curve tessellation. It should help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graphix Posted July 28, 2004 Share Posted July 28, 2004 We have the same problem as well, in 2004. It only happens when you are working on 3D models, flipping around 3Dorbit and using shademodes. It is infact a royal pain. You get that sinking feeling everytime it happens hoping the "quit" command works. Oh well another oddity of AutoCAD. chucuSCAD P.S. I did also have this problem in 2002 but only when working on REALLY big files IE 60MB or better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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