bbuche Posted October 14, 2004 Share Posted October 14, 2004 Just lost 2 hours of work due to an internal application error while printing a page. I know you all are going to say didn't you save before you tried to print but it would be great if we had somewhere to back-up from. thanks Brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lohman Posted October 14, 2004 Share Posted October 14, 2004 What version of IronCAD? What operating system? Printing to what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbuche Posted October 14, 2004 Author Share Posted October 14, 2004 7.0.1 Microsoft xp Just printing a sheet in an icd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlehnhaeuser Posted October 14, 2004 Share Posted October 14, 2004 IronPRO Full version has an AutoSAve and AutoBackup. If this is something that you feel is really a need for you. Check it out http://www.ironcad.it Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lohman Posted October 14, 2004 Share Posted October 14, 2004 Print "to" what though? Were you printing that sheet to a laserjet, or a pdf file, or ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbuche Posted October 14, 2004 Author Share Posted October 14, 2004 just printing to the laserjet printer using the icon and not the cntrl+p. That sometimes locks up the computer too so I stay away from that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lohman Posted October 14, 2004 Share Posted October 14, 2004 Hmmmm that's a new one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbuche Posted October 14, 2004 Author Share Posted October 14, 2004 YEP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IronKevin Posted October 14, 2004 Share Posted October 14, 2004 A wise old CAD Sage once said: "Save everytime you do something you don't want to do again" IK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbuche Posted October 18, 2004 Author Share Posted October 18, 2004 Thanks for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IronKevin Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 I think some guy named Mike Twining wrote an Autodave utility, here is a copy... EZSave.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Twining Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 (edited) I think some guy named Mike Twining wrote an Autodave utility, here is a copy... 7993[/snapback] ... I don't know... Have you seen that guy? YIKES!!!! And who is "dave"? MikeT Edited October 18, 2004 by Mike Twining Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jkim522093 Posted October 19, 2004 Share Posted October 19, 2004 I've read this issue thoroughly because it is very important one. There are several causes to sudden crash of the application; application error itself, OS issue, Hardware issue, users' error and others. But most important thing for the designers is to have some sort of security of their works from any kind of system crash. We all know that it is not possible to have perfect security to bring us back to the time just before the crash. But, as all the other competitors offers, we should have feature to have our works back even though it is not the exactly one we lost at system crash. And this feature should be a basic and essential one of the serious CAD software like IronCAD, not a plug-in or utility with fee. Whether the cause of the crash is IronCAD or not, if designer lost all the data he has been working for some hours, then he blames something causes the crash. But he also blames IronCAD for the lack of the back-up file because there is nothing left in IronCAD while other CAD application get back to some point before to system crash with their back-up. Mightbe this kind of feature could affect the application performance negatively due to it will surely need the system resources. But I think there must be some effective way to minimize this side effect, and also it will be OK if the end-user can enable/disable this auto back-up feature. Anyway, I need the back-up feature desperately because I really don't want my customers to lose their valuable data again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cdeveaux Posted October 19, 2004 Share Posted October 19, 2004 We used to use a CAD program called Cimatron. It used a somewhat different scheme; AFTER a small operations, or DURING a large one, it wrote to what was called a "Work Area", basically a series of files it used as temporary storage. They were not directly open - able, but if the user had a crash, everything up to the last command could be "restored from work area". This might have performance issues; in Cimatron we only designed in wireframe. But since IronCAD is always making temp files anyway, could they not be used in the same manner? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Allen Posted October 19, 2004 Share Posted October 19, 2004 IronCAD must be using a similar scheme - at least to the point of saving small temporary files. The ../Local Settings/Temp directory on the C: drive has many such files that are written by IronCAD & deleted when IronCAD closes (and stay behind when IronCAD crashes.) Any plans in development to use these for file recovery? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcbmde Posted October 19, 2004 Share Posted October 19, 2004 Perhaps a 'command line' text file of all non-camera scene changes since the last 'full save'. Kind of one of the beautiful things of AutoCAD and COSMOS was the ability to generate large models off of several lines of code...Not that IC has a command line, but there must be a way of storing the commands alone, without saving the actual computational changes to the scene...So in case of a crash, that is not 'operator error' then the whole command line file can be re-run automatically without user intervention, or the last command(s) can be removed and automatically run to a stable model where the CAD operator can hopefully continue on the path to enlightenment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITAYLOR Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 (edited) I'm using IC 2018... Is there a Backup file option? As a long term AutoCAd user I was able to 'autosave' every 15 minutes. It saves an extra .bak file That is what I thought IronCAD was doing till I investigated this. I have just realised that in Options/General/File Save & Open... There is only an option for a 'reminder'. Not an actual save. To the developers...I vote for a .bak system (unless I have missed something). Any autosave where a file can be recovered in a crash would be good. Edited October 5, 2018 by ITAYLOR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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