?Locked in paper space... or something...
?Locked in paper space... or something...
(OP)
SW2009.0.0
Got a SW assembly drawing, trying to make a .DWG version for distribution to folks lacking SW.
Tried {print to|save as}dwg (I forgot which).
Now, I seem to be in the drawing editor, but almost everything is grayed out. I can get Page Setup and Print Preview dialogs, and I can change selection filters. I can launch Help.
I can't open, close, save, print, sendto, or >EXIT<.
I can bring up the window list, and everything else is greyed out and not selectable.
Window sizing up/down/restore works like a flash.
Minimize/restore all of SW works like a flash.
Here, 'like a flash' means faster than I've ever seen it.
I can minimize the drawing window and go the model window, and look around in it, but I can't rotate or manipulate the model. I go around back on another computer and look in the folder (remote server) where the model and drawing files are stored. No new entries in more than an hour, the last time I saved, before I got myself into this zombie land.
The X for closing the window doesn't work.
The X for closing Solidworks doesn't work.
Drawing view red/green highlights come up, and bring up the View properties window over the feature tree. That closes normally and the feature tree is redrawn instantly.
Whacking the Escape key brings up a dialog box that says "The current operation cannot be interrupted or the document is not accessible at this time." OK is the only choice presented; I hate dialog boxes like that.
Anyone have a clue what SW is trying to do here?
Got a SW assembly drawing, trying to make a .DWG version for distribution to folks lacking SW.
Tried {print to|save as}dwg (I forgot which).
Now, I seem to be in the drawing editor, but almost everything is grayed out. I can get Page Setup and Print Preview dialogs, and I can change selection filters. I can launch Help.
I can't open, close, save, print, sendto, or >EXIT<.
I can bring up the window list, and everything else is greyed out and not selectable.
Window sizing up/down/restore works like a flash.
Minimize/restore all of SW works like a flash.
Here, 'like a flash' means faster than I've ever seen it.
I can minimize the drawing window and go the model window, and look around in it, but I can't rotate or manipulate the model. I go around back on another computer and look in the folder (remote server) where the model and drawing files are stored. No new entries in more than an hour, the last time I saved, before I got myself into this zombie land.
The X for closing the window doesn't work.
The X for closing Solidworks doesn't work.
Drawing view red/green highlights come up, and bring up the View properties window over the feature tree. That closes normally and the feature tree is redrawn instantly.
Whacking the Escape key brings up a dialog box that says "The current operation cannot be interrupted or the document is not accessible at this time." OK is the only choice presented; I hate dialog boxes like that.
Anyone have a clue what SW is trying to do here?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA






RE: ?Locked in paper space... or something...
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Chris
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RE: ?Locked in paper space... or something...
I had to kill it FIVE times before it stayed dead.
Then I shut off the power and went home.
Thanks.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: ?Locked in paper space... or something...
SW doesn't appear to have actually crashed, but it's too busy to bother redrawing the screen or responding to the keyboard.
Once again, I told it to 'save as' DWG, and accepted the defaults.
During that process, it presented a dialog box asking something about "1:1" and some other stuff. It seemed to be a cautionary deal. I didn't try entering anything other than OK.
Does generating a DWG ordinarily take a very, very long time, or am I doing something stupid... again?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: ?Locked in paper space... or something...
Have you tried saving as, or printing to, PDF?
RE: ?Locked in paper space... or something...
I'm looking at it with Task Manager. It's consistently consuming exactly 50 pct of the CPU cycles.
It's done 401,0xx,xxx I/O Read Bytes, and the number is incrementing by about 2,000 per second.
It's done 6,633,532 I/O Write Bytes, and that number hasn't changed since I fired up TM.
Other current stats per TM:
Mem Usage 1,915,008K
Peak Mem Usage 1,945,656K
VM Size 1,838,188K
Paged Pool 1,516K
NP Pool 86K
Handles 2,560
Threads 24
GDI Objects 2,119
Does anything seem odd there?
The SLDDRW file is 172,027kB
The SLDASM file is 36,094kB
The drawing comprises one sheet with 6 views of the model.
The model itself must reference at least hundreds of other files; it includes complete exterior details of a Diesel engine and its accessories and brackets.
What I'm trying to produce is an AutoCAD drawing of the SLDDRW file, with the 4 orthographic images at 1:1 to the actual engine in model space. As I think about the complexity of doing that, I guess the computer and the server each have to do a lot of grinding.
The guy who used to do this didn't seem to have any particular trouble with it... but he didn't write anything down... and he's gone.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: ?Locked in paper space... or something...
RE: ?Locked in paper space... or something...
If not just give them an eDrawing. They will then have access to both the 2D and 3D. They can either download the free eDrawing viewer or you can give them a self-executable eDrawing which does not require the eDrawing program to be installed on their machines.
RE: ?Locked in paper space... or something...
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Certified SolidWorks Professional
Certified COSMOSWorks Designer Specialist
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RE: ?Locked in paper space... or something...
I sent the pdf.
I will worry about producing an AutoCAD file when I have completed the next outer interrupt, "super panic gotta have it yesterday or sooner priority one" job nears completion, if it ever does...
Thanks, guys.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA