Burning ACAD files to CD
James S Torrie
We have a CD Burner and need to burn dwg files on them. Our first go at
it fell over. When we tried to open files from the CD, ACAD just ignored
us and brought up the open dialog box again.
Other files open just fine. Peculiar to ACAD? Help me 'cos the client
needs those files yesterday!
James T
ANVIL DESIGN
Jack Goldstein
Autocad tries to save backups in the same directory they came from,
and can't write to a CD, so it won't open those files.
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terry.rawkins
in the open dialogue?
Terry
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hard drive. Then highlight all of them and then right-click. Choose
"Properties." Un-check the "read-only" box. That should do it.
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Walter
time without a problem. Obviously they can't be saved to the CD.
There may be something about how the Temporary File Location and Automatic
File Save folders are specified. We specify it as 'C:\Windows\Temp'; if it's
just '\Windows\Temp' then it's looking for a folder on the drive with the
drawing?????
-- Walter -- http://www.ActiveDwg.com
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><snip>
> Usually you can't just open DWGs from a CD.
><snip>
Walter
something else going on here. We open drawings off CD all the time without a
problem. Obviously they can't be saved to the CD.
There may be something about how the Temporary File Location and Automatic
File Save folders are specified. We specify it as 'C:\Windows\Temp'; if it's
just '\Windows\Temp' then it's looking for a folder on the drive with the
drawing?????
-- Walter -- http://www.ActiveDwg.com
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> <snip>
> Autocad <snip> can't write to a CD, so it won't open those files.
>
matt
so to speak.
We open DWG's straight from cds all the time without
too many problems. today I have personally
opened 9 DWG's from 2 different cds with no problems.
Ocasionally things won't open directly from cd but this
can be normally be overcome someway.
matt
David Hansen
filename must conform to the old dos 8.3 format, or AutoCAD gets unhappy...
Unless you tweak your Windows settings so that AutoCAD doesn't know it is a
CD-ROM, but thinks it is accessing a network drive...
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Walter
CD's has a name like:
'104_West_Elevations.dwg'. We've done nothing special. There's something
else up with this.
-- Walter -- http://www.ActiveDwg.com
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Caveman
> I disagree about the file naming convention. A typical drawing file on our
> CD's has a name like:
> '104_West_Elevations.dwg'. We've done nothing special. There's something
> else up with this.
> -- Walter -- http://www.ActiveDwg.com
>
<SPACE> in the dwg's total name string can make Acad unhappy. (You seem to
substitute spaces with underlined spaces, which is an ancient, but good UNIX
way to make represent separators.)
Walter
requirement.
-- Walter -- http://www.ActiveDwg.com
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Norman Smith
I had another go at writing to the CD today and noticed a curious thing. Our
directory of block files open fine from the CD. The problem is limited to
the drawings which utilise xrefs and raster images. The titleblocks on all
our drawings are xrefs, with a attribute block inserted. Does anyone
experience this problem??
James S Torrie
Anvil Design
James S Torrie wrote:
> Newbie to this ng.
>
> We have a CD Burner and need to burn dwg files on them. Our first go at
> it fell over. When we tried to open files from the CD, ACAD just ignored
> us and brought up the open dialog box again.
> Other files open just fine. Peculiar to ACAD? Help me 'cos the client
> needs those files yesterday!
>
> James T
> ANVIL DESIGN
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James S Torrie
I need to make it a relative pathname I think.
ie; pathename: ..Blocks\title.dwg
etc.
rather than D:\blocks\title.dwg.
I will try Monday a.m. Does anyone have a script to bath process all 120
drawings?
Once again, thanks for the input.
James Torrie
Paul Turvill
are in either your Acad Path, or the same folder as the calling drawing.
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