Vajrang,
Thanks for the response. I you say that this is not reproducible, and I am saying that it is definitely on my end, could you give me some ideas to check on my end that would cause us to get different results? My VAR was also able to reproduce the problem with my data that I sent him.
Pete Yodis
Thanks for the response. I you say that this is not reproducible, and I am saying that it is definitely on my end, could you give me some ideas to check on my end that would cause us to get different results? My VAR was also able to reproduce the problem with my data that I sent him.
Pete Yodis
Thanks for your help on this. I have sent sample files of ours.
I opened up the XREF manager and clicked on each XREF and clicked the button for "Save Path". I then saved this drawing as a copy and opened the original in eDrawings 2006 and the manipulated copy. The manipulated copy did not exhibit the problem, where as the original did exhibit the problem. My problem is that we can't do this for all 6,000 drawings that are maintained in our PDMWorks vault, just so people view the drawings through the portal using eDrawings 2006 don't get the XREF can't find messages.
On all of our drawings, the XREFS are already there. The image you showed was for a new XREF insertion on a drawing. There isn't a dialogue box avaliable like this for XREFs already available in the drawing. I did check the properties for each and found that the paths are listed in the properties, so it appears that the option for "Retain Paths" was set for the initial insertion of these in the drawings.
Agreed - this has been caused by changes in eDrawings 2006, not by changes in your environment. At the same time, the XREF path option works for me, so there might be something unique in your setup that's causing eDrawings 2006 to fail.
If you can help reproduce the problem, I may be able to figure out where the problem lies.
The Retain Path option in AutoCAD is available at the point an XREF is attached to a DWG file (see snapshot).
Vajrang.
Pete Yodis
All of our DWG files were generated from AutoCAD 2000 and earlier. I can't find a "Retain Path" Option in AutoCAD 2000. Do you know where it might be located? Also, the XREF find functionality worked for us in eDrawings 2005, but does not work now in eDrawings 2006. Nothing changed between the way our files were created - in fact probably 95% of those files havent been touched since then, so it appears the change must have occured on the eDrawings end - something is different in the code in how it is finding the XREFs between the 2005 version and the 2006 version. What it is, I don't know.
Sure thing. Here are a few things to try :
1. Is your XREF path a network share (e.g. "\\machine\share\folder") ? Can you try putting your XREFs to a local path (e.g. "c:\xrefs").
2. Is this file-specific or filename-specific ? Try with a test case newly created from AutoCAD or DWGeditor. Also try using different filenames while creating your test case.
3. While saving your XREF attachments in AutoCAD, were your files saved with the "Retain path" option turned on ? Try turning it off.
If none of these make any difference, could you post your sample set of DWG files here with the exact XREF folder name you specified in eDrawings ?
Vajrang.
Pete Yodis
The problem you're describing is not reproducible in eDrawings 2006 SP0 or SP01. I believe the SR was closed and your VAR notified on 09/13/2005.
Please contact your VAR or support@edrawingsviewer.com if you have any additional information that may help reproduce the problem.
Vajrang.
In SP 1 eDrawings will sill not correctly locate XREFS needed to view a dwg file when set under Tools, Options, Import, XREF Folder. It is still broken. I have a Service Request number of 1-190164411, but no one seems to be listening. SolidWorks please give me an idea that you agree this is broken, and at least a tentative time frame for when it will be fixed. No one wants to look at this issue it seems. I need to have it fixed before I roll out 2006 to the company. I will not force our non-engineering staff to see the messages over and over again that ask them to find the missing XREFs everytime they want to view one of our 6,000 DWG files.
Pete Yodis
Harold Beck and Sons
This is not set on my machine and I still have the problem, so it doesn't seem to be that.
Pete
Thanks for your help on getting the fix made. I will download EV SP2 when it becomes available to confirm that it fixes the issue for us. I will keep you informed. Thanks again.
Pete Yodis
The problem was reproduced with your new data set. It appears to have been something unique to your files - the filenames of the XREFs did not have ".DWG" specified as the extension (I don't know why) which is why the XREF lookup was failing and also why we weren't to reproduce with generic test cases.
The issue has been been fixed in eDrawings 2006 SP02.
Vajrang.