Duplicate Objects created during grip editing

[rclayton]

Users in our workgroup have had a recurring issue when grip editing plines and splines in grading drawings. When a spline or pline is selected and the vertices are moved by selecting a grip and stretching that grip, a duplicate object is created under the object actively being edited.

When this is discovered the workaround has been to undo back to when there was only a single object and start the grip edit operation over again. This problem is not reproducible in any given circumstance and appears randomly during different editing sessions on different machines.

I posted a VIP support issue, but Autodesk's response was very vague citing drawing corruption as a possible cause, but no errors are present when this seems to happen and an AUDIT or RECOVER show no errors on files that this has occurred in.

My question is, has anyone else ever seen this type of problem? I am hoping that there may be "power in numbers" if I can get others to document this problem, or at least let me know it isn't me or my specific environment, then maybe I can get Autodesk to acknowledge the issue and help me find a possible cause.

I have access to Autodesk through both VIP and as a BETA tester so any additional information from others will help me in my quest to get Autodesk to acknowledge this problem.

We are using AutoCAD 2006 on Windows 2000 SP4 - All stations are P4's 2.0+ Ghz with 1Gb RAM

Thank you,

[Maverick91]

Users in our workgroup have had a recurring issue when grip editing plines and splines in grading drawings. When a spline or pline is selected and the vertices are moved by selecting a grip and stretching that grip, a duplicate object is created under the object actively being edited.

When this is discovered the workaround has been to undo back to when there was only a single object and start the grip edit operation over again. This problem is not reproducible in any given circumstance and appears randomly during different editing sessions on different machines.

I posted a VIP support issue, but Autodesk's response was very vague citing drawing corruption as a possible cause, but no errors are present when this seems to happen and an AUDIT or RECOVER show no errors on files that this has occurred in.

My question is, has anyone else ever seen this type of problem? I am hoping that there may be "power in numbers" if I can get others to document this problem, or at least let me know it isn't me or my specific environment, then maybe I can get Autodesk to acknowledge the issue and help me find a possible cause.

I have access to Autodesk through both VIP and as a BETA tester so any additional information from others will help me in my quest to get Autodesk to acknowledge this problem.

We are using AutoCAD 2006 on Windows 2000 SP4 - All stations are P4's 2.0+ Ghz with 1Gb RAM

Thank you,
I'm guessing now. Tell more about the files that this happens in. Does this happen in random files? Did you get the files from an outside source? Are you using any third-party programs?

[rclayton]

I'm guessing now. Tell more about the files that this happens in. Does this happen in random files? Did you get the files from an outside source? Are you using any third-party programs?

Most of the files that this happens in are from outside sources. I have seen this happen in drawings that were exported from Microstation and also from LDT using the "Export to AutoCAD" command to eliminate proxy objects. However I have also seen this in files that were created by us in AutoCAD 2006 with no add-in or Vertical Market products.

As of right now the problem is very random both in execution and in the types of file in which it occurs, but it is most prvelent in files recieved from outside sources.

Hope this helps,

[Maverick91]

I posted a VIP support issue, but Autodesk's response was very vague citing drawing corruption as a possible cause, but no errors are present when this seems to happen and an AUDIT or RECOVER show no errors on files that this has occurred in.

Have you tried PURGE? Don't just use the dialog menu, but also use the -PURGE command as well and use the RegApps option.

[rclayton]

Have you tried PURGE? Don't just use the dialog menu, but also use the -PURGE command as well and use the RegApps option.

I will try that the next time it happens in a drawing and see what happens then

Thanks