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Hello all.
I've been following the instructions in the user's manuals and in the forum and still can't import a dxf file into Matisse (V2P1R1) on my PC. The funny thing is that the exact same dxf file can be imported without any problems on my laptop, which has the same version of Matisse and Telemac2D as my PC. My laptop has Windows XP and my PC Windows 7.
- I already installed cp
- I click on "ANNULER" when this message appears:
"attention, format recuperé de la sauvegarde d'image incounnu"
- the dxf file is in the format AutoCAD R12/LT2
- I'm in the "lignes geo." mode
- there are no spaces in the names of any of the paths (the file is here: d:\telemac2D\test1\file.dxf)
Thanks in advance!
Roberto

Hi Roberto
The cp solution which works on XP should also works on 7 but maybe there is a problem of rights in your directory.
I never test this tricks on 7.
Cuold you give us a copy of the command windows which run back when Matisse is running.
When you import a file in matisse, somem messages are written in it. maybe this could help us to understand where is the problem with 7

Regards
Christophe

Hi Christophe
Thanks for your quick response! Here's the error message in the command window. I translated it into english, because the original is in german.
Thanks again for the valuable help.
Roberto

Hi Christophe. Thanks for your quick response!
Here's the message in the command window:

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ILOG Views, licensed to "edf-clamart-Golden Disk EDFDER".
file : D:\telemac2D\test1\stmary.dxf
The command "perl" is either incorrectly written or cannot be found.
Erreur execution commande :
cp D:\telemac2D\test1\stmary.dxf c:\TELEMAC\Pre_Post\bin\temp\data.dxf

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Thanks again!

Roberto

Hi Roberto

Very strange, that means the program could find PERL on your computer but it necessary exist because you run matisse!!!
How did you launch Matisse?
Could you check your PATH to verify PERL exists?

Regards

I launch Matisse by executing "matisse.bat" from the command line.
could you please be a bit more specific about the PATH? in which file?

In a command windows, just type PATH.

here's the PATH, and PERL is in it. strange.....

Hi Roberto

Perl seems to be OK
Another things to try.

Run Matisse and try one more time to import your dxf.
As it doesn't works, make a copy of the line which don't works in Matisse (le line is cp D:\telemac2D\test1\stmary.dxf c:\TELEMAC\Pre_Post\bin\temp\data.dxf or something similar)
Close Matisse
In the wommnd windows that stay after Matisse closing try to manually execute the command by entering:
cp D:\telemac2D\test1\stmary.dxf c:\TELEMAC\Pre_Post\bin\temp\data.dxf
and check the error message.

cp should be equivalent to perl -x -S cp.pl
So if Perl exist you could directly try the entire command perl -x -S cp.pl D:\telemac2D\test1\stmary.dxf c:\TELEMAC\Pre_Post\bin\temp\data.dxf
This command line should normally execute the folowing windows command copy D:\telemac2D\test1\stmary.dxf c:\TELEMAC\Pre_Post\bin\temp\data.dxf then you could aslo check if this command running well on yoru computer

Hope this helps

Hey Christophe
Thanks for all the help. I added
c:\TELEMAC\V6P0\bin and
c:\TELEMAC\Pre_post\bin
to PATH (before trying your suggestions) and now the import works. When I checked PATH I noticed that the locations of "cp.pl" weren't there, so I just added them. I don't really know for sure why this worked (do you?), but it did.
Thanks again for everything!
Roberto