CIVIL3D CAD FILES BEIGN RESTORED TO A PREVIOUS VE3RSION

[Nevin1025]

Hi All,

Our IT guy at our company knows nothing about CAD what so ever. He took a brand new server (5 years old) and hooked it up with an existing server that was over 20 years old and on its last leg. I don't know how they are hooked up or anything. But we've been having some really weird things occur to drawings after we have saved them. The issue we are having is with the annotative text. When we last saved the drawing, the annotative text was set to 100 scale and 50 scale. Next time we open the drawing, the annotation scale still has the 100 & 50 scale text. But now it includes 150 scale, 75 scale, 80 scale. Has anyone ever heard of things like this occurring? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nevin

[BlackBox]

I'm a bit confused by your post; if you're saving a drawing and then reopen it, at which point is the drawing being restored to previous version?

Obviously not enough information here to determine the IT/Network/Server topology, but the only thing wrong with standing up an old server is usually how slow it is. Perhaps the company is still running off the primary (newer) server, and the older server is simply a failover node in the event primary server goes down unexpectedly or for maintenance. It's also entirely possible the old server is being used as additional storage capacity and some shares were moved from the newer server to the older server. Again, more information is needed.

That said, saving a drawing and reopening it does add scales by itself, so something is adding them on drawing open, such as AcadDoc.lsp as example or someone else is adding them which should show in DWGPROPS (last saved by).

HTH

[rkmcswain]

A file is just ones and zeros stored on disk (OK, SSD actually stores it differently, but for the sake of this conversation, let's just say "on disk") (Feel free to read up on this here.)

In any case, there is a 0.0 (ZERO) chance that anything IT is doing is changing the order, value, etc. of these ones and zeroes in such a manner that it would be making changes as you describe to the DWG files.

It sounds a lot like there is something running inside of AutoCAD at startup that is causing these changes.