Hi all
I am having a head ache with tool palettes and none of the treads in here have the answer for my problem. Hopefully the bright people in here will give me some clues on what is going on. Will describe the problem the best way I can:
Created a new tool palette with a source file located on a network drive where I am the only one with full permissions and everything was working fine, including basic testing on other computers using the export/import palette for the last week; today when I was finally ready to start proper testing of the palette before rolling out to other users, the palette just stopped working on a very odd occasion. I can’t insert any of the blocks, tried all options below with no success:
- Started the testing process with a brand new drawing from the template and started bringing the blocks from the palette, at the same time I had the source drawing open and was correcting any errors I found during the testing process. After any corrections on a particular block I would save the source file and right click on the palette block image to redefine the block, after that I would go back to the test drawing to continue with the testing.
- After doing the above for 3 or 4 different blocks the palette just stopped inserting any of the blocks, being the ones already on the test drawing or new ones not yet tested, no message from AutoCAD if pressing F2 to check on the error;
- Next step tried to go back to the source file and bring in any of the blocks from the palette and again not inserting and no message;
- Next step was opening the source file from design center and create a brand new palette from the blocks inside the source file, again error messages along the following lines “block definition is not found in the source drawing….”. Palette was created blank. Source file was not open during the attempt;
- Next tried to export the palette to a network location and import on a different computer, process worked fine and palette was created and populated but could not insert anything on any drawings, if right clicking on any of the block images within the palette choosing properties and clicking OK to close the properties the message is “Source drawing ……. For block … not found”, so again no luck;
- Next since I am using Civil 3D 2017 for the above decided to try all of the above on AutoCAD 2017, again no luck;
I am out of options and have no idea what is causing the problem, all my paths (support, Tool Palette File location & Authoring Palette File location) are pointing to the network location where the source file is located, blocks are all embedded into the source drawing and as I said above the permissions on the folder are correct. So what the hell is wrong.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Jaime