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Greetings!

We have a course in 3d Modelling in the school im in, and i seem
to have encountered a problem.
We had a free task, so we could create anything we wanted, so i choosed to
make a 3d model of my room, but then a problem accured, the program crashed
and the file wont open anymore.
We are currently using Autodesk VIZ 4, and i was wondering if anyone knows
how to fix a broken file?
I didnt do anything in particular, it just got corrupted when i tried to save it.
Ill attach the file to this topic so if you can please help me, i dont have time to make
a new room, since the task is due in a few days.

Yours truly, Remalimegalo!



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Start a new scene, try merging (File > Merge) half the objects from the damaged file. If it works, the problem is in the other “half”. Repeat until you find the problem object(s). Merge all the good ones into a new scene and recreate the bad ones. That’s about the only way to recover from that situation.

It’s possible there was an auto backup file, but if you’ve used Viz since the crash then it has probably been overwritten by now.

Always save incrementally - MyScene01, MyScene02 etc then you only lose what you did during the session when it crashed.



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