Some dwgs failing

[Anonymous]

We published 40 layouts as dwgs but 12 failed. We cannot notice any difference between the ones that worked and those that did not.
The files were all created in V7 as pmks but are in pm 3.

Any ideas, consultants are waiting.

thanks

[Eduardo Rolon]

If by fail you mean that the published dwgs cannot be opened by AutoCAD this might help.

Use the file/recovery command from AutoCAD to open the dwg. What I found is that some AC objects create invalid fills/hatches that make AutoCAD hang-up. Though I have not being able to track the culprit this might help open those files.

[Anonymous]

"ejrolon" wrote:
If by fail you mean that the published dwgs cannot be opened by AutoCAD this might help.

No they fail in publisher and do not get to autocad.

We sent dwgs from AC to cover those that failed. I'm still curious as to the cause.

[Djordje]

Peter wrote:
No they fail in publisher and do not get to autocad.

This will happen if they are open on the same or other networked computer in AutoCAD, or if they are XRefs in an open DWG. So the DWGs that are being published must be left alone while publishing.

HTH,