Anyone know what this means?

The company I work for has just linked all our computers to an internal
network.The guy with the administrator rights has placed all my drawing
folders on the server and are no longer on "my computer". I have noticed
that since he has done this I sometimes get a line in the command line
which
reads *warning* multiply owned object.Handle 7494. after performing a quick
save during a drawing session.

Can anyone tell me what this means?

Also since the link up, all my drawing icons have changed. Before I could
have clicked on a drawing file and it would have opened even if AutoCAD was
not already opened. Now I have to have AutoCAD open first.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
M.L.

 

In addition to any help you may receive here, you might want to try posting to:
autodesk.autocad.network

 

Multiply owned object handle errors are bad, and generally
indicate a corrupt drawing. While it may open in AutoCAD,
the problems that caused this kind of error can worsen and
lead to disaster.

My suggestion is that you start auditing your .DWG files,
and find out what third party applications have been used
with them.

 

Perhaps you can track down the source of the problem via the handent
command:
(handent 7494)

Then keep working your way upstream from that, via entity names/table
records, etc.
Perhaps the VLIDE Drawing Inspector window can assist you with this.

Although I have no idea of the various ways this may occur, I have always
seen this type of error with respects to a bad group or groups (usually
anonymous).

Feel free to try the following code which will delete any empty groups your
drawing may contain.
Use the DG command to run it from the command line.

If this does not solve the problem, try finding the source, via the above
mentioned methods, and, if it IS an anonymous group, use the GROUP command
to explode it, and see if that fixes things.

If THAT doesn't work, then it's time to haul out the heavy artillery...
SuperPurge can scrub alot of glop out of an unruly drawing.

hth,
David Kozina

Code:

; Delete empty groups
(defun djkDeleteEmptyGroups
( ;
/
_obj ; group object
*djkAcadObject*     ; Object
*djkActiveDocument* ; Object
*djkGroups*         ; Object
; /
; vl:T
)
; begin
(setq *djkAcadObject* (vlax-get-acad-object))
(setq *djkActiveDocument* (vlax-get-property *djkAcadObject*
'ActiveDocument))
(setq *djkGroups* (vlax-get-property *djkActiveDocument* 'Groups))

; loop through all group objects
(vlax-for _obj *djkGroups*
; ...zero items in the group object?
(if (zerop (vlax-get-property _obj 'Count))
; then delete the group
(vlax-invoke-method _obj 'Delete)
; else skip
;
);_end if
);_end vlax-for
; end
);_end defun

; Delete Empty Groups
(defun C:DG
( ;
/
; /
; (djkDeleteEmptyGroups
)
; begin
(djkDeleteEmptyGroups)
(princ)
; end
);_end defun

[\code]

 

Thanks for your help folks.
I will try these out when I get back to the office on Monday.
Regards,
M.L.