Issues with the Project Navigator

We're hearing reports of issues with the project navigator tool that could potentially affect your projects. Most of the errors we're seeing have been tracked down to improper use of constructs, elements and views. However, I did hear from an Autodesk employee that large projects that have references files included in the file structure that were not created as elements, constructs or views could potential cause errors in the project database. Since I don't have all of the details yet, I'll try to post more information as I can track it down.

Be aware that when you manually load images, dwf's and dwgs into a drawing that's part of a Project, they are not necessarily linked to the project, and will not be automatically repathed when a project is copied or moved to a different location - be aware of this if you're updating or replacing servers. It's a good idea to check the relative path options when attaching files manually, or even as a default option in the Project properties.

A common issue that's been occurring has to do with ABS and ADT 2005 and 2006 and slow performance with views and other files. Autodesk has published a tech support document that deals with these performance issues. You can find this solution at the following link:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=5911331&linkID=2476059

The techdoc id # is TS1052972, you can also search Autodesk's support site for this information.

If anyone is having issues along these lines feel free to post here so we can discuss. We may not have all the answers but can definitely post issues with Autodesk and hopefully help to resolve some of these issues.

thanks - David B.