Edit X-ref in place 2010LT problem

[Glen1980]

Every so often when others in the office and now, today, myself have been editing an x-ref in place it will not allow us to save the changes we have made.

 

First when you try the dialogue box flashes up , as attachment. I press F2 to bring up the command line box and have copied the relevent lines below.

 

Command: _refclose

The following symbols will be permanently bound to the current drawing:

Text Styles: $0$Arial

Blocks: $0$_ArchTick

 

 

Enter option [save/Discard reference changes] : _sav

Regenerating model.

Errors found in references to other objects:

** Object reference missing: AcDbBlockReference, to AcDbDimAssoc.

Regenerating model.

 

*Cancel*

 

Any ideas how to work around this or correct it? Luckily on this occasion I was simply stretching a kitchen to fit a new layout but others have lost an hours work (I have no idea why they were in there for so long either:?)

[CyberAngel]

Does this happen with only one drawing? Have you tried running an Audit on it?

[SLW210]

Was the xreffed file created from a vertical product? The work around for this is to go into the xreffed file and make modifications there. You might try closing the DWG and reopening, maybe give it a purge, an audit, etc.

 

I searched "Object reference missing" at Autodesk and there are plenty of similar problems and seems most are while in-place refedit. No solutions, just work arounds, that I found.

[Glen1980]

All X-refs and drawings were produced on 2010LT in house.

It is a very infrequent problem but has happened often enough for me to remember it.

As soon as I had run the undo command to take me past the point where I had opened the x-ref edit in place command I was able to redo the command make my changes and come out again normally.

I do purge and audit regularly, especially as someone whose CAD skills are not great produced this drawing (plus he is middle management and won't listen to a mere technician.)

 

I suspect that this happens when the in place editing command has been opened for a while. I am usually in and out straight away but this time I thought I'd closed the editor and got distracted (ooh shiney ) by something and left it open a lot longer than I intended. It is a similar story for my collegues who have had this one of them had been editing for nearly a whole afternoon, I did manage to save her work but can't remember how.

[SLW210]

AFAIK this bug has been around since at least AutoCAD 2000, from looking on the Autodesk site. It seems quite apparent they have no intentions of sorting this.

[Glen1980]

Oh well, as long as I'm not the only one! At least I tell colleagues not to linger in the editor we may avoid the problems, I suppose we should just be grateful Autodesk gave LT the command at all