VBA crap

Sorry, have to get rid of some anger.
We just received a number of drawings wich on opening report:

Initializing VBA-system.

Drawings are approx 500-600KB, pretty small, no xref's (at least none shown
on the command line).
Just because af this VBA-crap loading takes about 15-20 minutes, causing
windows to shout "insufficient virtual memory" and autocad to cry "fatal
error: aborting".
Right.

Don't know what m...n invented this stuff but why do i need VBA to load a
drawing?
Is there a way to shut the VBA down before the entire drawing is loaded?

Our drawings are max 1MB, they load fine, within seconds, most architectural
drawings load perfect unless they grow over 20Mb.
System:
P-4 1.8, 256Mb memory, at least 900Mb swap space.
Quite enough for the work we do. (2D only)

Anyone have some ideas about this (don't come up with 'buy new hardware').

Jan

 

Hi Jan

AutoCAD doesn't load VBA by default...

It must be an application which use VBA. Check your Acad*.lsp's, *.mnl files
and the contents of the application startup suite.

Cheers

 

Sorry Juerg,
our drawings nor we do load VBA, nowere in our acad.lsp or menu's the VBA is
called.
It's realy coming from those drawings.
As soon as they are loaded the VBA is started.

Regards,
Jan

 

Jan,

In addition to any replies you might receive or already
received, you may find more information or responses
by posting future VBA related questions in the following
discussion group:

By NNTP discussion group reader at
news://discussion.autodesk.com/autodesk.autocad.customization.vba

By HTTP (web-based) interface at
http://discussion.autodesk.com/forum.jspa?forumID=33

 

Thanks,
i'll repost it there.

Jan

 

Sounds like the dwgs may have an embedded vba project?
Don't remember if there's a way to "disable" those on loading.
Maybe your consultants can send you a "clean" version of the dwgs?

 

Open Help, go to Search tab, search for "AutoCAD Macro Virus Protection
Dialog Box"

 

Posted a drawing in customer files.

 

Jan,

I can't help you with the VBA stuff. But, I just opened your drawing and it
only took 25 seconds for this drawing to open in ADT 2000 and 35 seconds for
it to open in ADT 2005. That's nowhere near the 15-20 minutes that it takes
to open on your machine.

 

The problem is with your AutoCAD installation.
There are some circumstances where the VBA
system will be loaded, even if there are no
VBA projects embedded in the drawing. I've
not found out what exactly it is that does it,
but I know that one of the sample drawings
that comes with AutoiCAD will cause it (don't
remember which it is).

In any case, the time you say it is taking
would suggest that you have a damaged
AutoCAD installation, or something else
which also includes VBA, on your system.

 

Posted the same question in customization.vba and in customer-files.
Result:
a very dense hatch pattern inside the drawing.
After removing this hatch pattern the "Initializing VBA-system" also
disappeared.
Probably the hatch pattern has a VBA-routine embedded or it is created by
some embedded VBA routine.
Anyway, after removing it the drawing responds fine, just like it should.

Thanks,
Jan

 

There is no VBA code embedded in the drawing you posted.
Run VBAMAN and check it out.

 

I did run the VBAMAN, didn't find anyting, why does the message
"Initializing VBA system" appears than?

To Tony Tanzillo:

There are some circumstances where the VBA
system will be loaded, even if there are no
VBA projects embedded in the drawing. I've
not found out what exactly it is that does it,
but I know that one of the sample drawings
that comes with AutoiCAD will cause it (don't
remember which it is).

In any case, the time you say it is taking
would suggest that you have a damaged
AutoCAD installation, or something else
which also includes VBA, on your system.<

That would suggest that each and every machine here would have a damaged,
thus malfunctioning, autocad installation.
90% of the incoming drawings load without the "Initializing VBA system"
message.
All of our own drawings load without it.

Only those drawings mentioned and some others report it and take forever to
load. Strange.

As I wrote in my solution:
after removing this dense hatch pattern, the "Init....VBA..." also
disappeared.
There has to be somewhere a connection between this hatch pattern and the
VBA. Logically.
Hope that someone finds out what it is/was.

Ok. Back to business.
Lets get some paper out.

Jan

 

Read Tony's post.

I don't receive any message about "Initializing VBA system" when I open
your drawing.