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Missing Drawing Views

Missing Drawing Views

Missing Drawing Views

(OP)
On Friday I finished up detailing a design with many components. But when I opened the drawing file this Monday morning many of the drawing sheets are not displaying the views of the geometry. The annotations are still there (dims, cos thrds, etc) but the model geometry is not shown. It is interesting that only about 1/3rd of the drawing sheets are affected this way.

Has anyone seen this before? Help.

No recent changes in the cpu.

sw06 sp4.0
xp pro sp2
xeon 3.6ghz
2gb ram
nvidia quad fx 3400/4400

RE: Missing Drawing Views

This happens to me as well on occasion, especially if I try to pan while a drawing is regenerating.  You just have to do something to force the drawing to regenerate.  I'm not sure if Ctrl-Q works.  You can usually click on a component in the feature tree, hide it, then show it again to force the regen of the view.

RE: Missing Drawing Views

From time to time whenever I encounter this (usually opening older drawings) I just pick the view and pick "Shaded with edges" from the view toolbar.  If that fails, then I right-click the view and pick Open Part or Open Assembly and rebuild at the part or assembly level.  Not sure why, but Ctrl+Q doesn't work for me on the drawing whenever this problem occurs.

Flores
SW06 SP4.1

RE: Missing Drawing Views

I have seen this before. Usually it has been a problem with the network or server. The above suggestions have worked for me.
Sometimes doing a "save as" a different name, then saving back to the original name clears it up.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-05)

RE: Missing Drawing Views

(OP)
Thanks handleman. Saved me a lot of time. I was worried that i would have to re-do a lot of work. But I hid a feature and then showed it again and everything is fine now.

RE: Missing Drawing Views

Happens to me all the time, usually when I am deep into session. It seems to be a video card problem. I can also lose the feature tree or the model view. Resizing the feature tree window fixes it well enough to do a restart.

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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2005 SP 4.0 (reluctant to change)
Matrox Millenium G550
AMD Athalon 1.8 GHz 512 Meg RAM

RE: Missing Drawing Views

This happens to others in my company.  It tends to be a graphics cards that is outdated.

RE: Missing Drawing Views

A Ctrl-Q should be performed on all Part, Assemblies, and Drawings throughout the life of the file and as it is being made. This function will show you any errors in the files as you make them. Some errors will not show up until after you perform a Ctrl-Q. A full rebuild is performed when you open a file and this is when some errors will get revealed and then people don't understnad why... it was because it was always there you just didn't perform the Ctrl-Q to see it.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

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