Plot Crashes AutoCAD 2005

Anyone else having this problem? We've had AutoCAD 2005 installed now for a
couple weeks and it was working fine. I did install a new print server
Monday AM (same name, same plotters, etc), but plotting was still working
fine until sometime mid-morning today (Wednesday). Now every time you send
a plot, from any drawing to any plotter, AutoCAD just disappears and creates
an error to send to autodesk.
I tried a quick reinstall on one machine, which did not solve it. I can try
a full reinstall, but as this is happening with everyone all of a sudden,
I'd love if there was a quicker fix.

 

Do you plot using pc3 files? In that case you might need to recreate them.

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Best Regards, Jimmy Bergmark
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We have had slightly similar hick-upps here too. ( Without any recognizable
reason)
What I have done is completely remove everything related to the printer in
question
and re-install it. Just did that today. ( Xerox8830 connected to W2003
Server )

Matti

 

Yes, I do, but this is happening with both pc3 files and system printers. I
have reinstalled the system printers on a couple machines, but it still
crashed...actually, not really just a crash...AutoCAD simply
disappears/shuts down unexpectedly, without even a pop up message, though
sometimes it will ask to send an error report to autodesk.

 

I tried reinstalling a couple of the system printers, to no avail. This is
happening no matter which printer I choose.

 

As far as I know this is occurring with all machines running AutoCAD 2005.
Most of these machines also still have AutoCAD 2004 installed, and this
still plots fine.
Windows OS is mostly 2000, but also XP.
PC3 files are on the server and have always been there. They were working
fine when 2005 was installed several weeks ago.
Plot style tables also on the server.
This crash also occurs when printing to system printers set up locally and
even when printing to pdf995 software (which is completely local).
It happens with all drawings to any plotter from any machine...the only
consistent factor is AutoCAD 2005, which would make it appear to be a
problem with that.
Only other change I've made recently is replacing the print server, which I
did Monday AM. Though it is a different machine, it has the same name, IP,
and all the same print shares and drivers. It was working fine all through
Monday, Tuesday, and part of this morning...then suddenly, all installations
of AutoCAD 2005 decided to die upon plotting.
I'm going to try a complete reinstall of 2005 on my machine, but if that
doesn't work, I'm not sure what to do.

 

That's just it...I can't find anything in the logs or anything that would
indicate a sudden change in how something was set up. We do have Symantec
running on that server, but the update happens at 5 am and people logged on
and successfully printed after that update. Then suddenly, they couldn't
print anymore (not from AutoCAD 2005, anyway).
The only errors I've seen in the event log that show up around the time of
failure are below. There were three of the first one in the morning on
Wednesday, then one in the afternoon, but that's it. The second one only
showed up on the server for one user, and I saw it on another user's own
event log, but it hasn't appeared consistently everywhere. I've read some
help files related to these, but they really don't seem to apply (or I just
don't understand them). The paging file is plenty big (mentioned in some
help files), and I don't really understand about the file path thing
(mentioned in MS KB 838172).
Does AutoCAD 2005 do something differently than AutoCAD 2004 (which still
plots fine here)? And why would it start doing it only a few weeks after
install?
Thanks for any input and help!

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Srv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 2021
Date: 7/28/2004
Time: 8:31:15 AM
User: N/A
Computer: PRIMARY
Description:
The server was unable to allocate a work item 1 times in the last 60
seconds.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 03 00 48 00 ......H.
0008: 00 00 00 00 e5 07 00 80 ....å..€
0010: 00 00 00 00 9a 00 00 c0 ....š..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

AND

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Print
Event Category: None
Event ID: 61
Date: 7/28/2004
Time: 11:17:11 AM
User: DOMAIN\username
Computer: SERVER
Description:
The document J:\04187\Contract Docs\$Current Docs\Drawings\04187FP1.dwg
Model (1) owned by username failed to print. Win32 error code returned by
the print processor: 259 (0x103).

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

You will not believe the simplicity of the answer to this! The plot stamp
file was corrupted. After a day of trying everything else under the sun, I
just had to recreate that file and voila!
Now I just have to fix what I messed around with on my station trying to fix
it. Thank God I didn't reinstall on everyone's machine!
Thanks everyone for your suggestions and support!

 

Jenna,

Please submit this as a bug so it might be fixed:
http://www.autodesk.com/submitbug

--
Best Regards, Jimmy Bergmark
CAD and Database Developer Manager at www.pharmadule-emtunga.com
Take a look at
JTB FlexReport (FLEXlm report tool) - www.jtbworld.com/jtbflexreport
SmartPurger (Purges automatically) - www.jtbworld.com/?/smartpurger.htm
or download some freeware at www.jtbworld.com
More on AutoCAD 2005;
www.jtbworld.com/autocad2005.htm

 

I submitted it...thanks for the link. I don't know if they'll count it as a
bug, per se, but I suppose AutoCAD shouldn't completely fail like that for
one corrupted pss file.