QTO 2013; Is anyone successfully using it?

[lheifner354494]

We have had significant issues using QTO 2013. QTO constantly crashes, we see this happen when importing a Revit model as wells as a 2d pdf takeoff. In most cases, it corrupts the data file so we loose many hours of work. :(

Is anyone using QTO without these problems?

Lew Heifner

[ecleveland399933]

I can't even get it to load dwf files from Revit 2013. It's so bad for me that I can't get to where you are...

[lheifner354494]

I am not convinced that anyone is using QTO 2013 problem free. We have now resorted to doing a save followed by a "save as ....01, ....02, ....etc."

Anyway, still waiting to hear from someone who is successfully using QTO.....

[lheifner354494]

Last Friday I had a QTO expert in our office for a troubleshoot / debug session. We were working off of local files on the c: drive.

Is it possible the file corruption is due to a network issue and the software crashing is due to software bugs? I wonder if we are chasing problems from 2 different sources and we are looking in one direction only?

If the network crashes are causing the corrupt files, the software should be smart enough to recover. When I have noticed the data corruption, there is no recovering from it. I have Windows Explorer open at the same time as I am working with QTO so I can view the file size. When I see a 50mb files suddenly save as a 100kb file, I know there is a problem and obviously a lot of data is missing. My initial intent was to watch the file size and then perform a "save as" to attempt to reinstate file integrity. QTO will allow the "save as", however, any additional files are also corrupt and 100kb.

As it stands now, I am the only person in our office using QTO and on a limited basis until we can resolve these problems. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how we can determine if the network is or is not the problem?

[lheifner354494]

We have proved the network is not the issue. I was using QTO with local data files and experienced. the same issues.