3DC825 – Crashed 3DC Unable to Restart (resolved)

Hi Richard,

FYI: While attempting to work with animations – I tried to add a component to the component library while in animation mode… 3DC crashed – however – now I am unable to restart 3DC at all… Looks like I may have to completely remove and re-install the program to return it to service…

Every subsequent restart attempt produces this error: "Run-Time Error #94 – Invalid use of Null" – – – then the program crashes…

Regards,
Scott

Hi Richard,

The fresh install didn’t fix it – it turned out that it only trashed the component library – and – that was causing the failure to start… Once I removed the component library in question – the software started normally…

Regards,
Scott

I’ll have to reproduce it. But, out of curiousity, did 3DC ask if you wanted to revert to standard settings?

ok, over the weekend I got the same sort of error, 3dc just did not want to start. Instead it wanted the MSI install file to do something, reinstall I think.

All I had done is renamed a component library file and moved it to some place I could find it. I replaced the renamed file with a empty component File with the old name, thinking that would please 3dc.

In the end I had to restore the folders from my backup.

Also when making a new component library, just suppling a name for it is not enough, you must give it the dot and extension "CLO" or it just will not setup a new library,,,,

I fixed the issue where the "CLO" wasn’t added to the libary name. I’ll be working on the rest of it today.

I fixed the problem where shapes could be added to a component library in animation mode.

I found that 3DC wasn’t asking to "revert to standard settings", so I fixed that.

I also made 3DC much more tolerant of problems with libraries. So, I’ll call this one done.

Hi Richard,

Thanks – it was a bit of an obscure problem I just happend to stumble upon – appreciate the help !!!
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Regards,
Scott