Hello EngineerLife

Maybe you could try to print your Layout with the “Publish to WebJPG.pc3” Printer.

Hope this solves your problem 🙂

Hi there JamieT and welcome to CadAnswers,

Problem

Hope this helps.

We have been getting some cases in which AutoCAD 2015 would not launch. The error is:

The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142).  Click OK to close the application.

To solve this problem, we needed to use an advanced Windows Sysinternals Tool called Autoruns for Windows:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Launch the program and look for the following tab:  AppInit.  This will basically tell you if a dll isunsigned or digitally no longer valid on your computer.  All you have to do is rename each dll listed, one at a time and launch the product to determine the problematic dll.

With a bit of serendippity, we [Avto Chachava] also solved a (0xc0000005) error using the same process, in this case the problematic dll was:

nvinitx.dll

We have been using Procmon for ages, here is another tool in our troubleshooting arsenal.  Thanks to Kenny Chan for sharing this tip with the community.

Hope this helps 🙂

Hi there SuperUser

Please Execute ..\3rdParty\DirectX\DXSETUP.exe by hand,.

and voilà  ACAD 2013 will work!

Hope this helps

Hi Magdy,

Your best bet is to get AutoCad Lt which is a bit better in terms of performance on lower specs machines a full list of hardware required can be found below,

Hope This helps

JavaParaTrooper

CadAnswers Expert

Hi Margret,

To find the camera you can follow these steps.

Click Visualize tab Camera panel Show Cameras.  Find   

The “Visualize” tab only exists in the 3D-modelling workspace out of the box.

Switch to that workspace and do your 3D-stuff.

Hope that helps.

JavaParaTrooper

Hi JamieT,

This sounds like what I consider the classic fatal error window.

Sadly, my experience with Unhanded Access Violations is –

1)shut down

2)reboot the machine

3)restart CAD

4)use recover to open the original drawing.

IF it happens a lot, try working in another drawing for a while. The reason is to see if it is the drawing is what is triggering the issue.

If it is the drawing, either wblock or copy/paste the items in the drawing out to another drawing and get rid of the original, because it is corrupted. The reason to transfer the items and not just import the drawing itself as a block into the new drawing is because the latter may bring the issues with it. Also, importing blocks does not import any layout work. Each layout will need to be brought in separately.

So, more specifically, what you could do is: Create the new drawing. Go to model space, select all, ctr-c. Go to the new drawing, go to model space, right click, select clipboard, select paste to original. … Then do this for each of the layouts.

Also an Audit and Purge might be helpful.

If this doesn’t help then unfortunately a clean install might be required

1)Completely Uninstall AutoCad

2)Reinstall AutoCad using a valid Serial Number

I hope this helps

JavaParaTrooper

CadAnswers Expert

Hi there EngineerLife,

we at CadAnswers specially like Autocad but you have 2 options actually in the architecture CAD

Autocad V.S Revit

AutoCAD is a the primary product in the industry but Revit is slowly catching up to the gold standard.

AutoCad is really easy to learn alone specially that you are coming from a Mechanical CAD background, it would be very easy for you to get the hang of it.

AutoCAD is used for drawings in every technical field. Revit is exclusively used in Architecture, and only by larger firms that can afford to implement it. You need to know the job market in your local area before you decide.

On the Other hand Revit has a pretty steep learning curve, we’d recommend that someone shows you the way around, however you could find a good online course on Revit here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=revit

If you decide to go ahead with the AutoCad option please check this free Lynda online course: https://cadanswers.com/question/what-are-the-best-learning-resources-to-learn-autocad-quickly/

Best of Luck,

JavaParaTrooper

CadAnswers Expert

Hi there Lakers,

You can set the viewport scale to 1:5000 to represent the horizontal scale and vertical scale of the profile view to 10 (5000/500) by editing the profile view style.

the view port represents the horizontal axis scale

Steps:
1)In PaperSpace
2)Set Viewport scale to 1:5000 to represent the horizontal scale
3)Edit Profiles
4)Set Vertical Exaggeration to 10

Hello gunsnrosesfullconcertdownload, that’s a rather strange name 😀

Well Basically AutoCad Lt is just the same as AutoCad but without the 3D Capabilities, Express Tools, less Parametric Support, Standards Checking, Full Data Extraction Support and Profiles.

there’s a really good page on AutoCad for dummies that discusses just that that can be found here : http://www.dummies.com/programming/autocad/ten-or-so-differences-between-autocad-and-autocad-lt/

Hope that helps