Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
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Has anyone experienced their parts or assemblies disappearing now and again from the screen? Since moving to SW 2006 I have encountered this more often where the part/assembly disappears and after you close it down and re-open it, it re-appears. Now I have an assembly that does not appear at all, even after a computer re-start. The design tree comes up but apart from that I simply get the background.
Using a Dell 3Ghz Processor with 1Gb of RAM and an ATI FireGL V3100 Graphics card.
SW 2006 with SP 3.0
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Using a Dell 3Ghz Processor with 1Gb of RAM and an ATI FireGL V3100 Graphics card.
SW 2006 with SP 3.0
Any suggestions would be appreciated.






RE: Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
8.163.1.0 which was released on 09/09/2005.
I was using the driver that came with the card, however it was suggested that I update it to the latest version by our IT guys here, who do not use Solidworks.....
RE: Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
ht
Fire GL V3200/V3100
Win2K 8.103.2 06/06/2005 2006 View Notes
WinXP 8.103.2 06/06/2005 2006 View Notes
Try using that driver instead. There is an FAQ on how to install new drivers here as well.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
RE: Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
RE: Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
RE: Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
RE: Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
With the assembly open I opened the drawing and right clicked on one of the views, selected "open part ...." and it came back. I had tried that on previous occasssions but this time it worked.... eventually.
RE: Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
Flores
SW06 SP3.0
RE: Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
I've had similar problems this week as well as having my reference sketches within assemblies turn off periodically as I work (and some other nasty 'can't find xxx part' error messages). I'm not 100% sure, but I think it all began when I made my first assembly over 500 parts.
When Large Assembly Mode turns on for one assembly it seems to stay on and rebuilds any assembly you open after that in Lightweight mode regardless of the number of parts in it.
In Options I turned off 'Large Assembly Mode' and 'Automatically Load Components Lightweight', reopened the problem assemblies and right-clicked on the assembly name on the first line in the Feature Manager. Click on 'Set Lightweight to Resolved' and it may fix your problem.
I found this out a couple hours ago; I haven't had a part disappear since and all my other problems have gone away.
Hope this helps
Scott Heiden
RE: Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
RE: Disappearing Parts/Assemblies
i had an assembly cut feature that patterned. then i inserted a toolbox part and when i tried to mate it to any one of those assembly cuts, it dissappeared. it remained in the tree but was not visible on screen.
at any rtate, if this is you issue or related. the solution i used to workaround was to pattern at the sketch level. instead of patterning the feature. slightly more tedious as i wanted to constrain that feature so now i had to constrain each sketch entity separately as opposed to just having the definition in the pattern feature. but it did work and i was able to move on and complete my assembly/drawing.