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thegodian
23.07.2013, 12:53

Hi All,  Just wondered if anybody else has experienced the following:  I am trying to flatten a bit of 3D furniture to insert it as a block onto an exhibition stand and AutoCAD grey screens out and I have to crash out of it after a while as it is obviously not going to recover form not flattening. I have more than one drawing open when I crash out.  Upon re-starting a-cad gives me a window telling me it crashed and opens recovery manager. I now discover that AutoCAD in it's infinite wisdom has decided to turn of my auto back-ups four days ago so none of the drawings I had open (or had open up to four days ago ) has been backed up.  Not sure why is takes it upon itself to make these changes to my system but would love to know.  NOTE TO USERS; if your machine crashes you should check your auto back-up straight away to ensure it is still on.. IanAutoCAD 2014 running on pc

John Connor
23.07.2013, 13:45
I've crashed my computer using AutoCAD but I have never had the program decide on its own to turn off the auto save feature.So did you ultimately flatten that piece of furniture or not?

thegodian
23.07.2013, 13:57

Yes, but I open another copy of autocad and just let it run in the background, and instead of 'flatten' I 'flatshot'ed.

John Connor
23.07.2013, 15:13
You could also use any of the following to produce a 2D view:SectionPlaneSolfProfSolDraw/SolViewViewBaseBut I suppose you knew that already right?

thegodian
23.07.2013, 18:14

Yes I was aware of those commands, but you know what it is like when you hit enter then suddenly think 'arse' wrong command.  Thanks