Revisiting Autocad MEP 2008 Bugs / Problem
With AutoCAD MEP 2008 as a MEP software being used in our company, I have encountered quite a few notable bugs or problems that I hope will be settled on this year’s upgrade.
Here is the list. When I receive the upgrade I’m going to return in this post to see if Autodesk take it into consideration, a bug fix or improvement nonetheless.
MEP file format change. ABS 2007.1 can’t read MEP 2008 drawings properly. Actually this is not a bug, this is in fact a backward compatibility issue which I believe the software developer are aware of. I just wish they will allow introduce a way to enable the older MEP versions to read the Autocad MEP 2008 and above properly. Not a square or rectangle of acad proxies and the pesky N/A for the tags/annotations.
Saving takes too long. Yes, that’s right. In comparison to ABS2007.1, file saving in Autocad MEP 2008 is longer than the time it takes to save the same file in ABS2007.1 I recorded the time it takes and surprisingly, each file takes around 2 minutes saving time. While doing our MEP drafting work, how many time you think you are saving? I’m saving my drawing more than often, and with MEP 2008 it mean 2 minutes downtime.
Instability Issues and Crashes. Well, this is really the most annoying feature ever incorporated in MEP 2008 :). Hold the annotation, the software will crash, zoom in and out your MEP 2008 will crash, print preview you will be prompted with the popular “fatal error” dialog box. As I’ve said, the this error I receive is unpredictable. With 50 workstations using the MEP 2008 imagine how much headache this problem is giving me. If this problem will be solved in MEP 2009 I will be the happiest man in our department.
Dialog box are slow to appear. In MEP 2008, each discipline has its own property pallettes assigned. A very cool improvement from ABS 2007.1 but don’t rejoice yet. There is a slight problem. Whenever I’m adding a pipe or a duct for example (commnd=pipeadd or ductadd) the pipe add dialog box or the duct add dialog box takes time to appear.
So there goes the major problems I encountered. Of course there are minor issues but I those things I can tolerate.
Let see if Autocad MEP 2009 considered this problems - my cadd software miseries…
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