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Missing Drawing Views in Vaulted Documents

Missing Drawing Views in Vaulted Documents

Missing Drawing Views in Vaulted Documents

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I have an issue regarding viewing and printing SW drawings that have been checked into the vault using PDMWorks. When we view and print the files the geometry in some of the views is missing. Annotation appears, but the actual part does not. If I check the drawing out of the vault all the views are correct, everything appears. All the views are high quality. The problem occurs for every SW user and also for those individuals who only have the viewer. Has anyone had this problem? My VAR has not been as helpful as I would like. This is a big problem. We need to make prints for manufacturing.

We are running SW2006 SP4.1. PDMWorks was upgraded to its latest service pack. E-Drawings was upgraded as well.

I did a search of previous posts and did not find this specific problem.

RE: Missing Drawing Views in Vaulted Documents

I get that from time to time, and I even sometimes get that on drawings that were never in the vault.  Usually a CTRL+Q does not work, so I just pick the view, and then hit the "Shaded with edges" button.  If that doesn't work, then I open the model and then the view shows up in the drawing.  

Flores
SW06 SP4.1

RE: Missing Drawing Views in Vaulted Documents

I have noticed this most often with multi sheet drawing files.  I think that views on sheets which have not been made active in the current session are not guaranteed to be rebuilt correctly.  So I often cycle through all of the views before printing.

I have not worked with printing drawings directly from the vault.  One thing that you might try is cycling through all of the sheets before you do the save and check in.

Another thing that I have played with is creating a PDF of the drawing and attaching that to the drawing file (inside of the vault).  They’re quicker to open, and static, i.e. no worries of the drawing changing if I happen to end up with a different version of the model than what the drawing was created against.

Eric

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