Two Sessions and Jumpy crosshairs
Carolyn Brill
Timothy-
Thank you for your persistance with this problem. There is a patch
posted in the R14 file library. Let me know if it works for you.
http://www.autodesk.com/support/filelib/acad14/acad14.htm#patches
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Carolyn Brill
Autodesk Product Support
Timothy B. Storey wrote:
>
> The weirdest thing about this wintab problem is what I have discovered the
> last few days.
>
> This works on (2) different systems, with (2) different digitizers (Calcomp
> Drawingboard III and Summasketch III) and (2) different wintab drivers
> (Virtual Tablet ver 4.11 and Calcomp TabletWorks 5.0).
>
> I have (5) possible (at least) ways of starting an Autocad session. One
> way is a short-cut on the desktop that start Autocad in a specific project
> directory. The next is to double-click on the drawing name from within NT
> Explorer. Third is to double-click on the "acad.exe" from NT Explorer.
> Fourth is to drag a filename from NT Explorer to a short-cut icon on the
> desktop. Last is to type "e:\progra~1\autoca~1\acad.exe" in the run
> dialogue window. If you start _all_ your sessions from double-clicking on
> the file name from NT Explorer, and edit/save each drawing, you can exit
> from each session and the acad.exe processes do not remain in memory,
> hogging all the CPU Usage (from Taskmanager). If you use any of these
> methods to start the 1st session, and clicking on the file name in NT
> Explorer to start the others, Autocad R14 exits properly. If you start the
> second session (and any more) with any of the above methods _except_ for NT
> Explorer, Autocad doesn't exit properly and there are all theses little
> acad.exe processes still in memory. It would appear that the click on the
> desktop icon, the run dialogue and the and double-clicking on acad.exe in
> NT Explorer initializes Autocad R14 differently than when starting a
> session by clicking on the filename in Explorer.
>
> Tim Storey
>
> Calcomp Tech Support <bsp...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in article
> <01bd460d$db2cafe0$9077400c@tk-supt>...
> > The digitizer users who are experiencing this problem are usually opening
> > drawings that were either created in an older version of AutoCAD such as
> > R13, or are opening drawings that use x-refs. We have had users who are
> > unable to duplicate this problem with NEW AutoCAD R14 drawings but who
> have
> > problems with imported R13 drawings. We are convinced that this is an
> > issue that can be remedied by Autodesk's programmers, since they managed
> to
> > fix the same problem happening in Acad 13, and this problem can be
> > duplicated with any tablet manufacturere's Wintab drivers. Calcomp is
> > unable to remedy this situation within our drivers since when this
> problem
> > occurs during a shutdown of a multiple session of AutoCAD, the
> terminating
> > AutoCAD session has already properly and successfully closed it's Wintab
> > connection. At this point the Wintab drivers are no longer interacting
> > with that session of AutoCAD. We look forward to a remedy for this issue.
>
> >
> > Amy
> > Calcomp Tech Support
> >
> > Pat Segale <pa...@engineeringinc.com> wrote in article
> > <6d29nh$p3...@news-autodesk.autodesk.com>...
> > > System:
> > > AutoCAD R14
> > > Win NT v4.0 sp3
> > > Pentium II 300 mhz 64MB Ram
> > > Calcomp Drawing Board III
> > >
> > > Problem:
> > > After opening a second session of AutoCAD and exiting the crosshairs
> > become
> > > very jumpy in the original session.
> > > After exiting AutoCAD and Win NT altogether and restarting, the
> symptoms
> > go
> > > away until a second session is opened.
> > >
> > > Is this a resource problem. The feature of having two sessions open
> > would
> > > be very useful.
> > >
> > > Your help would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thank You
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
rusty
Carolyn, is this fix part of R14.01?
Carolyn Brill wrote:
>
> Timothy-
> Thank you for your persistance with this problem. There is a patch
> posted in the R14 file library. Let me know if it works for you.
>
> http://www.autodesk.com/support/filelib/acad14/acad14.htm#patches
> --
> Carolyn Brill
> Autodesk Product Support
<snip>
> > > > Problem:
> > > > After opening a second session of AutoCAD and exiting the crosshairs
> > > become
> > > > very jumpy in the original session.
<snip>
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Timothy B. Storey
Rusty,
With no acad.rx loading the fix, I have had 7 sessions of Autocad open,
edited some objects, saved and quit in each session, and not had the little
acad.exe processes still remaining in memory. This would indicate that the
fix is in R14.01.
Tim Storey
rusty <ru...@group-a.com> wrote in article <357755...@group-a.com>...
> Carolyn, is this fix part of R14.01?
>(snip) (chop?) (hack?)
Rick Moore
The digifix was not part of 14.01 but something changed which fixes the bug.