Six tips to troubleshoot problems in Auto. CAD software. Here are few Auto. CAD troubleshooting tips that you can use to get rid of most the issues related to software.
Although for any specific issue this list may not be complete and you might need to take help of Auto. CAD gurus at Autodesk forums. В still most of the issues can be resolved if you implement these tips. Restarting your computer. Fortunately most of the errors can be easily resolved by simply restarting your computer. Although it might appear unnecessary and at times it might look ridiculous also but believe me there are many small issues that simply get resolved once you restart your computer and launch a new Auto. CAD session. 2. Automatic Reset.
If restart fails to resolve your issue then you can try resetting your Auto. CAD software. This reset will wipe all your custom settings but you can create a backup of your custom settings as well before making a reset. Once you are free from notorious glitch you can again create custom settings. To make a reset click on start button,В now go to All programs and Autodesk folder, click on Auto. CAD 2. 01. 6 folder (or your version of Auto. CAD) this folder will expand now locate Reset settings to default icon and click it, a dialog box will appear prompting you to back up your settings or go ahead without making any backup. For now click on reset custom settings.
Your Auto. CAD software will start with refreshed settings. Update display driver. For most of the errors related to performance of graphics and display of drawing display driver is directly responsible. Hence it is a good idea to suspect display drivers if these kind of issues start to appear and update it as soon as possible.
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To update display driver right click computer icon on desktop or on start menu and select MANAGE (please note that you need administrators privileges to open it), now double click device manager and then expand display adapters from devices tree on right of computer management tree. Select your active display driver and double click on it. Graphic properties panel will pop up now click on driver tab and click UPDATE DRIVER button, in the next prompt select update automatically and your display driver will get updated. Turn ON hardware acceleration.
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Although this is not a troubleshooting tip but it can speed up performance of Auto. CAD considerably and you can use it if you are plagued by slow performance of your software. Make sure that your computer has a video card that supports Open. GL else hardware acceleration will not work. To turn hardware acceleration on type 3.
DCONFIG on command line, graphics performance panel will pop up now click on hardware acceleration button on effects settings, then click on OK to close Graphics performance panel. PURGE, AUDIT and RECOVERIf the issue is related to a specific drawing then you can use all these commands to clean your drawing and make it free from errors. I have written a detailed article about recovering a damaged Auto. CAD file. В this article will. В help you. В in correcting drawing specific errors. Making a hard reset. This method can be used if everything else fails, This method requires making some changes in registry and installation directory in your windows PC.
You might want to check out this article on how to hard reset Auto. CAD to default condition. Is your problem resolved with these tips? If not let me know your Auto. CAD issue in the comment and I will try to figure out a solutin for you.
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