Failed to Save Document !! What's this?

[tmalinski]

I've been working on an assembly for the last week, it is a combination of Top down and bottom up. Approx 40 parts. Approx 120 top level mates. I have had no problems until this morning all of a sudden I get a "Failed to Save Document" error. My PC was off over the weekend, I came in this morning booted and went to work. I saved the assembly several times this morning. The last thing I did was to insert another part and create a coincident mate. Then it failed to save. So I closed the assembly without saving, reopened it, repeated my steps and now it saves ok.
Did I do something to make this happen? Is there a SolidWorks bug? Although all seems well at the moment, I am concerned as to the stability of this assembly.


I am using Dell 670 2gb ram Xeon 3.8 Win XP Pro SP2 / SW 2007 SP2.0 and PDM Works and my Nvidia board drivers are certified.

Tom




Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

 

[handleman]

Last time that happened to me it was due to the network drive we use being full.

 

[tmalinski]

handleman,I am working local to my drive D with 80gb drive space. My toolbox is on our server but it also has plent of space left on it

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

 

[JMirisola]

Sadly, this is a random, yet known, error. It's also, usually, unrepeatable. It's because of this that many of us preach "save often".
Your assembly should be fine. The next time you open it, you may want to do a "save as" and save over the top just to be sure.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP2.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM, nVidia 2500M

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog

 

[SBaugh]

If its a failed to save Document and the TB parts are on the network... try coping the entire assembly out to the local drive and see if you have the same problem. If you test this, this will rule out the network because it is completely removed from the equation.

Otherwise JMirisola is correct its random, but 9 times out of 10 its a network causing the issue and its not about HDD space. Its about losing its connection with the TEMP file over the network.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[tmalinski]

So scott, even though I'm working on my local HD and my toolbox components have been "insert into assembly" My network is being hit every time I save?
I must have something setup wrong. I expected that after I insert a toolbox part into my assembly and save the assembly to my local HD the tool box stuff does not save back to my network.

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

 

[SBaugh]

Depends on your setup... Check to see when you got the file open that there are not any of those ~$ files in your TB. IF not then check your File\Find references - to make sure every thing is local... if it is all local then you are seeing a random issue of the local temp files getting lost and you can't save.

Your only fix is to turn on Auto backup and save often.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[tmalinski]

In my assembly file references it does show a path to my network toolbox "copied parts" folder. But why would this have anything to do with a failed to save error? I suppose when saving it needs to verify the reference location, even though its not actually saving back. Our network is very stable, and other assemblies work fine with similar Toolbox stuff, so I guess this is random to this assembly. I will make sure I save often

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

 

[smcadman]

We get that error from time to time. We have our toolbox with our custom parts on a seperate server also. So do others share the same toolbox, or do you use the toolbox on your local drive? We have several custom parts, and the hardware (screws, nuts, etc.) have our part numbers on them.

SW07 SP2.0

Flores

 

[tmalinski]

Flores, I do not use the local toolbox, there is one other SW user and he gets his parts from the same server as I do.

Tom Malinski
Sr Design Engineer
OKay Industries
New Britain CT

 

[ctopher]

Do a search here for "failed to save". Has been discussed before.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)

 

[smcadman]

Yeah Flores, do a search you lazy bum!

SW07 SP2.0

Flores