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Frustrating Feature Tree

Frustrating Feature Tree

Frustrating Feature Tree

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Hello,
I seem to keep having trouble w/ my feature manager tree.  After a while working in my assy or dwg, I am only able to expand/collapse folders, subassy's, and views by double clicking on them.  In addition, I cannot RMB on anything in order to perform certain functions.  So in order to continue working, I end up closing out and re-opening, which can put a real damper on my work flow since these files take so long to open.  Does anyone have any advice on this?

Thanks

SW2005 SP3.1
WindowsXP Professional 2002 SP1
3.00GHz
1.00GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX500 version 6.14.10.5218

RE: Frustrating Feature Tree

I had that until I upgraded to SP 3.1, perhaps I was just lucky now...
I think these problems happen mostly when you click too much! ;)

Seriously, waiting for SW to finish what it was doing before trying the next command solves many problems instantly!

Stefan Hamminga
Mesken BV
2005 Certified SolidWorks Professional
Mechanical designer/AI student

RE: Frustrating Feature Tree

I had that too a while ago, on a different machine. Install SP4.0, maybe it will help. I would also upgrade XP to SP2

RE: Frustrating Feature Tree

I have had this every once in a while since upgrading to 2005, it happens much less on sp4 than it did in earlier SP's though.  One thing that usually gives you your tree back is to right click on any part in your assembly and open it then rollback the feature tree to the begininng an then back to the end.  Switch back to teh assembly and your Feature tree will be back to normal.

Todd

RE: Frustrating Feature Tree

Beware of SP4.0... There have been reports (mine included) of it falsely, and annoyingly flagging errors in the feature tree. 3.1 didn't do this.

David

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