Update legacy drawing

[Peter Milner]

Update Legacy Drawing doesn't seem to find the old materials anymore.

A huge number of may furniture CAD blocks have some materials assigned by object.

It used to be that I could press the update button, the legacy materials would appear and I could then update them or leave them as necessary.

Assigned decals would also appear, but they no longer do.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

I certainly haven't changed anything in this area in a long time.  Upload an example drawing and let me know the steps in the comment field-- I'll take a look at it.

[Peter Milner]

Okay. This is a new drawing with a desk inserted into it.

When you update there should be a black plastic and a chrome material assigned to the desk feet.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Hmmm.... definitely getting materials on the legs.  Can't find the SVEN lib, of course.  Your drawing had a black bg so I had to change that to make the materials visible.

 

[Peter Milner]

I'm not getting that.

Vista 64 bit, AutoCAD 2011.

[George Ioannidis]

I'm getting exactly the same: no material in the drawing.

Acad 2011 - nxt 279 - win 7 64bit

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

No clue why-- it's looking for something called _ACCURENDER.mlib.  You might want to make sure it's on the search path.  I certainly haven't changed anything intentionally in this area.

 

[Peter Milner]

How come it shows up in your render and not mine.

If it was a search path thing then you wouldn't get it either.

Maybe you could send me an old format model that you know will update okay.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

It's on my search path because I put it there (a while back.)  The library is not included with nXt, nor will the search path be automatically added (64 bit machines have never seen legacy versions.)  Check the search path.

This drawing is a good example of one that will update okay.  It doesn't even require you to choose the Update Legacy Drawing-- it goes through the automatic update when you load it (it has never been updated.)

[Peter Milner]

Well, I've tried adding in the old mlib paths, but it makes no difference.

It still doesn't explain why it used to work and now it doesn't.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

The search path should be d:\accuren3\Common\Support.  Try that one (without the _accurender on the end.)  You may need to restart Acad after you do this (or maybe not-- try both.)

[Peter Milner]

Sorted.

That did the trick, though I still don't know why it was working before and then suddenly changed.

Thanks Roy.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Not sure either.  Something subtle may have changed about the way you work with the drawings.  Some search paths are automatic, such as the directory where the model is, the directory where the executable is located, etc..  If you were originally doing this on a 32 bit system w/ legacy versions installed, nXt would have found the old search paths.