topic Re: Plotmaker won't save in Documentation

Plotmaker won't save

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 00:36:10 GMT

I just got an "Error while writing file.." message in PM. I tried "saving as" also, no luck. The file is a 20 sheet layout book, with one Autocad drawing and the balance viewsets from AC9. Up until today, no issues. Any help will stop me from redoing a days work (yeah, I should have saved earlier ...)

Re: Plotmaker won't save

Erika Epstein — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:03:58 GMT

What did you add/do today?

Re: Plotmaker won't save

Nick Schat — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:13:33 GMT

I have also had this happen several times. Once you get this error message the LBK is basically useless. Check though that all the views/pmk's are present, I had one floorplan that spooked as a used drawing but was invisible so removed it and that solved the problem.
A workaround that worked for me is to open a new layoutbook and import all your layouts from the damaged LBK into the new one. Save this LBK with a different name and presto. If you still get an error message then you should repeat the above procedure except import one layout at a time and save after each import. This way you narrow down the offending layout.
I recommend you tick the icon to make a backup in your PM preferences.

Regards

Re: Plotmaker won't save

Haneef Tayob — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:45:20 GMT

Hello
I've posted a message outlining the same problem on the 30th Jan'06.
Never had such a problem before this time.

archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=9365&sid=bb79e0e1b63017e9a9c2984ccbbeb0c1

Was wondering if it has anything to do with having just upgraded to the latest bug fix (build 2172).

My suspicions are that the plotmaker layout did not open correctly in the first place but for some reason allowed me to work on it. The reason being that I was allowed to open another instance of the same file without a sharing violation message popping up.

regards