Expert: Bill DeShawn - 11/17/2006

Question
Hi again,
Trying to resize a spline, mainly... and also when I try to offset asome lines, it freezes.
Hope this helps!
Thank you!
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Hi Bill,
Lately whenever I try to offset or move an objest in my drawing, the program seems to freeze and becomes non responsive. I have to close it and lose all my changes. Would you have any idea what can cause this? I'm using LT 2004.
Thank you.
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There is nothing in the Autodesk knowledge base that resembles this problem, except for 3D objects.  So, I took the problem to the Autodesk newsgroups and only got one response.  Object type seems to be important in this person's mind as well.  

avw410 says:  Offset and move are pretty basic functions.  what type of objects are you
trying to move and offset?

Could you give us an update as to what kinds of objects?

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Kathy:
At this stage of the game, I strongly suspect two things.  First, I would do a repair installation of AutoCAD LT 2004.  You need to have the original installation disk in the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive, and then you go to Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs, find AutoCAD LT and click on "Change".  A dialog should then come up giving you Installation options.  Click on "Repair".  When the next dialog comes up, choose "Repair Installation" (or similar context).  

If that doesn't work, I would do things to the computer such as adding memory.  Today's loads on the computer require that AutoCAD users such as you and I need to have 2GB of RAM on board in the computer.  I suggest that if you don't have that much, that you upgrade as soon as you can.

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Bill DeShawn
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