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ProjectWise Design Integration Forum Projectwise, AutoCAD, and Drawing2
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    Projectwise, AutoCAD, and Drawing2

    Ben Fullenkamp
    Ben Fullenkamp over 13 years ago

    We have a few users that when they open a drawing through Projectwise, it opens up Drawing1, does not close Drawing1, it then opens the actual drawing but once the actual drawing is done loading, it is open as Drawing2, and not as the actual drawing name in AutoCAD 2009.  It then tries to save as a new document.  If we go directly to the working directory and double click on the drawing, it does not do this, nor does it do it if we open AutoCAD and then open the DWG through Projectwise using the File > Open command.  It is only of a few users, and only in regular AutoCAD (Bentley Piping and P&ID open correctly).  On a side note, it also moves Drawing1 into the foreground over the actual drawing, and does not close Drawing1.  About half of our machines don't close Drawing1, half do close it, but only these few move Drawing1 to the foreground once everything is loaded.  We load these drawings in a basic profile names "General", and if we delete the General profile and recreate it, this problem stops for a short time, but then comes back (usually in a couple of hours).

     Needless to say, this is rather odd behavior and that it only happens on a few machines is what is even more odd to me.  We've checked every configuration setting we can think of, we've tried messing with the Application setup, as well as User Associations in PW.  We follow the same setup procedures for AutoCAD with all our machines, and this machine worked fine with AutoCAD 2007 and PW, it's just in 2009 where we are having this difficulty.  Listed below is all the software that is involved:

    AutoCAD 2009, SP3
    Projectwise Explorer 08.11.05.63
    AutoPLANT P&ID 08.11.06.30
    AutoPLANT Piping 08.11.06.30
    SQL Server 2005 Professional
    Windows XP Professional

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