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Disappearing bend lines?

Disappearing bend lines?

Disappearing bend lines?

(OP)
I'm not sure when this started happening, but with a particular part, as I suppress and unsuppress individual bend lines to create configurations, they sometimes disappear!  The bend line is still there and can be suppressed or unsuppressed, but doesn't show up in the part or the drawing.  And sometimes when I suppress one, another one reappears.  Any ideas?  I'm running 2007, SP 2.0.

RE: Disappearing bend lines?

Are you suppressing the Bend Lines under the Flat-Pattern1 feature, or the actual Bend Features?

cheers

RE: Disappearing bend lines?

(OP)
Under the Flat-Pattern1 feature.

RE: Disappearing bend lines?

Why not just supress/unsupress the actual bend feature?

cheers

RE: Disappearing bend lines?

(OP)
Hmm.  After suppressing and unsuppressing all the BaseBends, it finally showed all the bend lines.  This seems like an odd workaround.  When I suppress and unsuppress one of the lines under the FlatPattern, it disappears, though it still highlights when I mouse over the feature.  But when I suppress and unsuppress a BaseBend feature, it reappears again.  Can someone give me a logical explanation for this?

RE: Disappearing bend lines?

Just guessing, but I would think that the Bend Lines are just reference geometry ... basically for visual use only ... and does not get rebuilt automatically. The actual feature will get rebuilt after unsuppressing.

Does a Ctrl+Q show an unsupressed bend line?

cheers

RE: Disappearing bend lines?

(OP)
No, CtrlQ didn't do anything, and neither did closing and reopening SolidWorks.

RE: Disappearing bend lines?

Have you tried to go to view then choose sketches?

RE: Disappearing bend lines?

(OP)
Sketches are turned on, and turning them on and off doesn't seem to do anything.  The only thing that seems to restore the bend lines suppressing and unsuppressing the BaseBends.

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