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hotwheels

Joined: 01 Jun 2007
Posts: 240

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject: TurboCAD format files

.. A major bug (in my opinion) that TurboCAD folks claim will be fixed in v15. Of course, to get that you have to buy it AGAIN. Nice customer experience, huh?



I experienced numerous program crashes, hangs and

data corruption when editing and saving AutoCAD format files using

TurboCAD v14. After numerous emails to TurboCAD customer support, they finally mentioned that editing files using native TurboCAD format is better supported (doh!). No problems since then and life is now

good! 



AutoCAD format=READ ONLY



Regards,

Jay



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larry(at)macsmachine.com
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:35 pm Post subject: TurboCAD format files

Hi Jay,

The TurboCAD I've used, versions 11 thru 14, never gave me any 

difficulty saving files as AutoCAD and bringing in AutoCAD files to 

TurboCAD.

This was necessary because engineering staff were using AutoCAD to model 

many of the systems in 3D which was much faster

in TurboCAD as well as rendering in color.  Never had any problems so 

long as you saved from the version of AutoCAD represented.

I've never had hangs, crashes or corrupted data with TurboCAD in 6 years 

use.  It replaced ProE and AutoCAD for design work where intensive

data wasn't needed for repeat manufacturing.  I think it's great 

software despite IMSI having an odd marketing group.



Larry McFarland 601HDS at www.macsmachine.com

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Jay Brinkmeyer wrote:

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 ... A major bug (in my opinion) that TurboCAD folks claim will be fixed in v15. Of course, to get that you have to buy it AGAIN. Nice customer experience, huh?



 I experienced numerous program crashes, hangs and

 data corruption when editing and saving AutoCAD format files using

 TurboCAD v14. After numerous emails to TurboCAD customer support, they finally mentioned that editing files using native TurboCAD format is better supported (doh!). No problems since then and life is now

 good! 



 AutoCAD format=READ ONLY



 Regards,

 Jay



 Do not archive





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hotwheels

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Posts: 240

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:01 am Post subject: Re: TurboCAD format files

Using v14.2, this scenario was very repeatable on my WinXP machine. Open up the seminar.dwg from AEC11. 



Make a change, save (as .dwg format) and then close the file. Do this until the file gets to be ~1.5MB. At this point, opening the .dwg file takes longer and longer. Sometimes the file opens after a really long time, but usually the program just hangs forever. Now your data is "gone" and the file is corrupted... Look at the running application when this happens using Task Mgr. You will see that TurboCAD consumed memory size just keeps growing and growing as there's a memory leak. More annoying is the occasional program faults seen during cut+paste or save operations. 



TurboCAD support confirmed the above as a known bug when using .dwg AutoCAD formatted files. The fix is only available in v15 - you get to buy it again (not!).



No issues where seen doing the above steps after saving the AutoCAD format seminar.dwg file as a TurboCAD format .tcw file.



Jay



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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject: TurboCAD format files

At 09:01 AM 2/18/2008 -0800, you wrote:



 	  Quote: 	
		  



Using v14.2, this scenario was very repeatable on my WinXP machine. Open 

up the seminar.dwg from AEC11.



Make a change, save (as .dwg format) and then close the file. Do this 

until the file gets to be ~1.5MB. At this point, opening the .dwg file 

takes longer and longer. Sometimes the file opens after a really long 

time, but usually the program just hangs forever. Now your data is "gone" 

and the file is corrupted... Look at the running application when this 

happens using Task Mgr. You will see that TurboCAD consumed memory size 

just keeps growing and growing as there's a memory leak. More annoying is 

the occasional program faults seen during cut+paste or save operations.



TurboCAD support confirmed the above as a known bug when using .dwg 

AutoCAD formatted files. The fix is only available in v15 - you get to buy 

it again (not!).



No issues where seen doing the above steps after saving the AutoCAD format 

seminar.dwg file as a TurboCAD format .tcw file.


	


    Don't save as .dwg



    If TurboCAD is your vehicle of choice, there's

    no value in causing it to open work product in

    one language, interpret its native language for

    editing and then converting back to the source

    language for storage.



    Use the .dwg files as a one-time source and

    let TurboCAD do what it does best after that.



    Bob . . .

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