For people who uses Autocad MEP 2008 extensively on their project I know that the famous line “Fatal Error: Unhandled Access Violation Reading blah blah blah…” is not new to you anymore. In some point of your drafting time I do believe that this error dialog box had already introduce itself so you’ll not be surprised if it pop up to your screen withoug giving you warning.
Its’ latest sighting is yesterday when an Electrical Autocad Technician is trying to convert an MEP2 2008 drawing to plain Autocad. Engineers from site requested him an Autocad version of one of the Electrical drawings of the project which we created in Autocad MEP (Previously ABS 2007.1) for their reference. For them to open the drawings properly the cad operator should convert it first to plain cad version otherwise the objects in the requested drawing will just appear like a series of rectangles and N/A. This problem has been mentioned in this post Autocad MEP Problems / Bugs.
So back to the simple file conversion task, normally to convert the MEP 2008 drawings to a plain Autocad version. Here are the common ways to make it happen.
- by envoking the command: “etransmit”
- by exporting to autocad, command: “_AecExportToAutoCAD2004“
- by converting to dxf via command: “dxfout”
He chose the second and to his surprise the friendly Unhandled Access Fatal Error showed. So this is the case where I have to enter the CADD scene to act like Mr. Cadd Inspector. I have to find a way to export the problematic MEP 2008 file to Autocad and the same time explore the problem.
