AutoCAD files in Intralink

[JamesM]

I'm wondering how many users of Intralink and other PTC data management products use it for storing files other than Pro/E files, specifically AutoCAD. We use Intralink 3.4 and store some AutoCAD, Word, and Excel files in it. Occasionally an AutoCAD file is imported which will not open. I know it's not a configuration issue because most files open correctly, and the filenames look legitimate (no spaces). Is this a common issue and is there a solution?

 

[ankarl]

We use 3.4 to store our acad and MS-office documents. The only time we had problems opening a file it is not because of intralink.
There are a few older files saved in a very old acad versionthat has been corrupted and not been opened in many years that gives us problems.
Some of those files gave us problems even before we loaded them into intralink.


regards
/Anders

 

[shaggyturtle]

I am having the same issue. I have found that if you checkout the AutoCAD file to a workspace and then look in your hard drive, you can remove the numarical extension that IntraLink applies to the AutoCAD file and it will open properly. This requires you to import the modified AutoCAD file back into IntraLink again, so it is not the ideal solution.

 

[ankarl]

To get rid of the version launch the file from IntraLink with adding noversion.exe in front of your launch command:


noversion.exe C:\Progra~1\AutoCA~1\acad.exe #FILE