v8i Flatten

[Aplant Monkey]

So i am trying to test the functionality of the Flatten program within v8i. I have never had much faith or luck with it in XM and certainly not in 8.6.

So here is what I have so far. I have created a very basic model with some pipe that crosses over itself a couple of time at different elevations. I have then created a Viewport with a scale of 1:30.

When I run Flattener I load the drawing, I then assign a destination location ( same as orig) Once I run the program I get what you can see in the attached file. there is an Error msg that says is cannot find the drawing FLAT_Flat-Test.dwg the part that has me confused is this drawing of course doesn't exist as it is what is supposed to be created. For whatever reason it seems that it is looking for the file that it is supposed to create. Hopefully that is clear. The prgram then tells me that it has successfully created the Flattened drawing in the specified folder (with the name that it says it can't find). however when I look in this folder.... it is not there. I have tried to adjust the destination folder to my Desktop with the same result. :confused:

[kfauver]

Is the folder it is trying to write to write-protected? May be a permissions issue. Change the destination folder to one you know is not write protected

[Aplant Monkey]

I have tried to do it from my desktop as well as save it to my desktop. I am certain that the folders are not the issue. thks kf

[PartRidge]

Brian, you don't have Navisworks 2010 installed do you? According to other posts NW2010 causes some problems with Flattener.

[Aplant Monkey]

in fact I do. I don't recall seeing that Ed, but thanks I will look into it

[Aplant Monkey]

I cannot seem to find any of these posts. Does anyone else have a record of this. Also, does anyone know of a solution to this problem with NW2010

[awerning]

I can't find the posts at the moment either...but I think I remember something about once you installed NW it screwed it up for good (at least it wasn't as simple as just uninstalling NW...it was something more complicated...I think).

[PartRidge]

The post is located under Navisworks posted by WizardOz.
It has a pdf attached that provides directions how to fix it as sent from Autodesk Support

[Aplant Monkey]

I think Ed is speaking of this post

http://www.davetyner.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4986

I have not yet tried this fix but will likely do it later this week and will post results.

[Aplant Monkey]

So I downloaded the Service Pack 1 from Navis Works (AutoDesk site) and loaded it onto my machine. The first time I ran the Flatten after the upload it failed and became unresponsive. Never one to give up I tried again and this time IT WORKED !

Thanks to Ed for pointing me in the right direction. And thanks to Grinch for having it in the first place.

[Aplant Monkey]

So I downloaded the Service Pack 1 from Navis Works (AutoDesk site) and loaded it onto my machine. The first time I ran the Flatten after the upload it failed and became unresponsive. Never one to give up I tried again and this time IT WORKED !

Thanks to Ed for pointing me in the right direction. And thanks to Grinch for having it in the first place.:D B)