You ACAD users will understand

"and 100 more" (nth256) 07/23/2020 at 21:35 • Filed to: None

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I just had the kind of CAD crash that makes one question their life choices.

No drawing recovery advice needed or desired, please and thank you. I’m just... wow. I want to be angry, but I honestly don’t have it in me. I am just utterly defeated.

DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back > and 100 more 07/23/2020 at 21:50

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Mechanical 2015 was by far the worst version of AutoCAD I have ever used by far, constant crashing.

Its gotten a lot better in the versions since but I still have PTSD from those days.

Bylan - Hoarder of LS400's > and 100 more 07/23/2020 at 21:53

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Words don’ t do that feeling any justice.

Go for a walk

and 100 more > DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back 07/23/2020 at 21:55

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Civil3D, in my case. Fucking Autodesk ...

and 100 more > Bylan - Hoarder of LS400's 07/23/2020 at 21:57

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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > and 100 more 07/23/2020 at 22:01

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My coworker always makes fun of me for constant saving, hten had to clean up one of the folders “gmporschenut...there 5700 files in this.”

If restarting coffee and a walk if you’re done, t ime for beer.    

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > and 100 more 07/23/2020 at 22:03

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Doesn’t even need to be ACAD. I’ve used CADDS, CATIA, Solidworks and PRO/E as well as ACAD, and pretty much all of them have caused me to feel your pain at one point or another. There’s times when stacking boxes starts to look like an attractive career option.

Deep breath and a walk in the park, or if that doesn’t work, bottle of whisky and a straw.

Bylan - Hoarder of LS400's > and 100 more 07/23/2020 at 22:07

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Yup. And then you do it all over again, only better

Gone > and 100 more 07/23/2020 at 22:22

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Admittedly I am no t a fan of   AutoCAD, so I’d be flat out defeated . So yeah...I can imagine t hat really sucks.

I lost many days of SolidWorks last year during a massive project completion push. We use a weird hybrid of saving to a normal server or to an EPDM system. It causes problems at times. Anyhow, I was using the EPDM server but it had kicked me (no notifications) and SW didn’t know/care. I was manual saving to nothing, and SW a utosaved to nothing, everything was acting normal. As I was building some stupidly large configuration assembly (400+ configs) i t crashed, I rebooted. Everything went *poof*. Just wanted to I don’t know...quit, cry, melt the server down, just...f.

benjrblant > and 100 more 07/23/2020 at 22:58

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F.

I’m so sorry. I cannot begin to list the number of CAD crashes that have ruined more than a day for me. A former office had a “number of days since CAD crash” next to the number of safe days without accident. fortunately the staff was more safe than CAD.

Jgonzo432 > and 100 more 07/23/2020 at 23:00

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Civil 3D user here too. I’ve had that happen a few times over the years, most recently in April. Just felt gutted. All you can do is step away for a while then start over.

Recently upgraded to 32gb of ram and it seems to have helped.

EngineerWithTools > and 100 more 07/23/2020 at 23:13

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I’d like to bash acad, but NX has been driving me batty for 6 months after years of rock solid performance . I literally bought a new workstation so I can stop hearing “well your machine isn’t on the certified hardware list”. Hey guess what, the measure command still causes graphics freezes.

Aaand a coworker “turned off my computer because it was taking a long time to save” yesterday. Well you were saving an assembly back to team center with 4000 parts in it, over the internet. Upside: I’ve learned how to resync  a corrupt BVR.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > and 100 more 07/23/2020 at 23:25

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I have to deal with ANSYS crashes now, I think they are worse than Creo crashes from back in the day....

notsomethingstructural > and 100 more 07/23/2020 at 23:29

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thoughts and prayers

and 100 more > notsomethingstructural 07/23/2020 at 23:31

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F to pay respects

and 100 more > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 07/23/2020 at 23:35

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Yes, technology is continually improving, but coding is apparently not.

and 100 more > EngineerWithTools 07/23/2020 at 23:40

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I hate your co-worker, just based on this anecdote alone.

and 100 more > Jgonzo432 07/23/2020 at 23:43

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We’re all working on company-issued laptops now, which are actually really good, no complaints there.  AutoCAD is what it is, though.

shop-teacher > and 100 more 07/23/2020 at 23:52

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F

shop-teacher > and 100 more 07/23/2020 at 23:54

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Ooofff.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > and 100 more 07/24/2020 at 00:01

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We are now using project wise or as I call it project fuck-up. The auto cad seems to be reliable but project not so wise has serious issues on a weekly basis and I’m on a 100 sheet set of plan and profile drawings at the moment. Yeah!

and 100 more > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/24/2020 at 00:46

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We just transitioned into PW as well (some projects are still transitioning), and yeah, it comes with its own share of headaches. What kills me is the idea that we are not on the cutting edge here, other firms MUST have been thru this before. So why is there still so many compatibility problems between ACAD and PW???

Hey, aren't you in Texas too? 

FastIndy > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 07/24/2020 at 00:50

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Click OK to terminate

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > FastIndy 07/24/2020 at 01:14

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and 100 more > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/24/2020 at 01:16

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Just realized you said you’re on a set of 100 sheets... How are you managing without the use of Sheet Set Manager, since that was all but kneecapped by PW?

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > and 100 more 07/24/2020 at 07:21

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In school I once completed the entire assignment of a complicated surface model in Solid Works and then the power went out. I had forgotten to save at any time. I damn near burnt the place down. I’ve also blue screened my computer here at work with a large assembly in Solid Edge. I feel you

and 100 more > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 07/24/2020 at 09:01

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Me, months ago: Damn, CAD crashes this file every time it saves. *turns off autosave*

* Months of work go by, no problem*

Me, yesterday, six hours into a grading plan without autosave:

wkiernan > and 100 more 07/24/2020 at 09:07

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It always amazes me how Civil 3D knows you’re in a hurry and rush ing up on a deadline so it will choke and die and delete your last half-hour’s work. Is there some kind of subsystem that measures the frequency of your key presses and mouse clicks to determine the user’s stress level?

There’s something similar built into both of the plotters in my office. Somehow they know when you’re in a hurry, e.g. , there’s a client waiting at the front desk, or a field crew getting ready to leave the office and go to a job site waiting to pick up a worksheet , and then, only then, do they decide to run out of paper or simply lock up.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > and 100 more 07/24/2020 at 09:49

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Sorry, man...

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > and 100 more 07/24/2020 at 10:57

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I’m in Montana. We’ve been on PE for about 3 years now.

and 100 more > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/24/2020 at 11:26

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We’re less than a year into PW, please tell me it gets better.

Gotcha. I have a hard time remembering who my Texas neighbors are ( and aren’t) .

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > and 100 more 07/24/2020 at 15:15

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Sorry bud, it doesn’t get any better. It really helps work flow with everybody working from home but if you are used to working in an office with a kick ass file server there is no comparison.