The time limit of the orange "INFECTION" box needs to be removed or lowered
By Eric Galvin on Friday, 13 February 2026
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Everytime i open i file, i have this warning and i have to wait (10?) seconds while i just stare at the fucking screen. Im so over it. Our engineers have no need to change their processes, their files work perfectly fine for 20 years and nothing has ever been an issue for them. Sometimes im opening up 30, 40 files or more in one day and every time im sitting here waiting for this fucking dialog box to go away. I have clients come in and we have to stare at the screen and make small talk while i wait for it to go away. Im not cleaning hundreds of xref and main files to change something that doesnt matter to anyone else in the office. There is simply no need for the time limit. Keep the stupid warning if you want to, i know you wont get rid of it, but the time limit is crazy stupid. A dog could read the warning in less than 10 seconds. Sorry for all the bad language, i know nothing is going to be done about this and im screaming to the air, but i needed to vent. Maybe a new product that does the same thing as this software will come out and my company can switch. This crap is crazy. I really dont need any replys about how i can just clean my file. Im not going to waist my productive time or anyone elses in the office for something that is not necessary in any way. Remove the time limit please.
Eric,

Let’s talk about frustration, shall we?
Because consider, why on Earth would we implement a warning dialog like that? That certainly seems stupid the way you put it. Well let me share a bit from our side, see if you can appreciate some of our frustration.

We had a user with 35 sheets of details in a single file. They were complaining that inserting a detail took a long time. Over multiple days and multiple technicians, we tried to inform them that the drawing file had gotten corrupted and should be rebuilt as 35 separate files. They ignored our advice and continued to seek assistance every few days with the same file. After a couple months they reported they couldn’t open it anymore and were finally forced to rebuild it.

Another user, went to batch plot a 100 sheet project, and every single detail callout got removed due to corruption.

This list goes on and on, by the way. We had meetings on the subject, we voted on prototype warning dialog boxes. We needed some way to get through to people, that this is a serious issue, that can destroy not just a single file, but entire drawing sets.

Would you believe the first version of the dialog didn’t have a timed wait? Well guess what. We had ticket after ticket of people submitting massive corrupted files. Their plant schedule didn’t work, pipe sizing was broken, you name it. Oh, and every single one of them had some sort of deadline so it was an urgent affair.

So we implemented a timed wait on the warning dialog. To hopefully give the user a moment to reflect, why would a software company do something so obviously annoying? Surely there must be a reason?

Anyway, alas, no, we will not be removing the timed wait. Because without it, we wouldn’t have gotten this lovely interaction. Without the wait, you would have just blindly clicked past it every day. Now, when the inevitable strikes, and causes your firm to miss a deadline and have to redo a project, just because you refuse to follow best CAD practices and our strong warning to clean your files, we can all revisit this lovely post.

—J
Jeremiah Farmer
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