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PW rendering fails to save

PW rendering fails to save

PW rendering fails to save

(OP)
We have been having an intermintant issue the last couple of weeks. We save a PW rendering and everything works as normal. The processing dialog box does it's count down and we recieve a message when the rendering is done which says somehting to the effect of "your rendering saved succesfully, blah, blah, blah" . This is all normal behavior. The problem, when you go and find the saved rendering file it's empty, It actually won't even open and the file size is a ridiculously low number like 100kb. I can't seem to pinpoint any sort of pattern to the problem it just happens intermintantly. Is any one else seeing this or have any ideas?

TIA

Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com
SW 2006 SP 2.0

RE: PW rendering fails to save

No.  I'm wondering if your installation is hosed.  Mine seems to work fine, but I'm still using SP2.0.


Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.

RE: PW rendering fails to save

(OP)
We are on Sp2.0 also.  It's just odd that it started all of the sudden.  Maybe a good clean unistall and re-install is in order?

Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com
SW 2006 SP 2.0

RE: PW rendering fails to save

Are you saving across a network?  Are you saving with a file name that has already been used?  Saving to a read only folder?  

Just more things to check.

RE: PW rendering fails to save

(OP)
I've had it happen on  2 different machines.  One was saving to a network location and the other was saving locally, No it was a unique file name and I don't think the folder was read only but I will double check that.

I also thought it may be the size of the file (image too large) but that wasn't the case either.

Thanks for the thoughts Matt.  I have the feeling this is going to be one of those things that never gets figured out like Roswell and the meaning of life.

Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com
SW 2006 SP 2.0

RE: PW rendering fails to save

Yikes--perhaps the clean reinstall?  Seems strange.


Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.

RE: PW rendering fails to save

Look in the dictionary under "L"

RE: PW rendering fails to save


????????

RE: PW rendering fails to save

L for Life, methinks, regarding Rob's post.  Ha!


Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.

RE: PW rendering fails to save


Ahh, I get it now ... "the meaning of life"  lol

Sorry, I'm a bit slow this morning. Need more morning

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: PW rendering fails to save

(OP)
UPDATE:  Well things went from bad to worse.  PW stopped saving renderings all together.  This forced me to unistall and then re-install.  The good news is, everything is working normally now.  Thanks for your help

Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com
SW 2006 SP 2.0

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