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The Magic Disappearing Views!

The Magic Disappearing Views!

The Magic Disappearing Views!

(OP)
Has anybody seen the issue where SW will magically and randomly decide that it wants to draw the annotations and such on a 2-D view, but not the model that is in the view? I'm running 07 with SP 2.2 installed, but I saw this issue in 06 as well.

RE: The Magic Disappearing Views!

What is your hardware setup?

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SWx 2007 SP 2.0 & Pro/E 2001
XP Pro SP2.0 P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
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RE: The Magic Disappearing Views!

Drawing or model or ?
Can you explain better or show an image?

cheers

RE: The Magic Disappearing Views!

(OP)
CBL: Drawing. I create a drawing from a standard 3-D model. Dimension it, annotate it, balloon it, and such. Then I'll print it and the annotations will be there but the 2-d views of the model won't be. When I reload the model at that point those same views go missing on my screen. If I restart SW it solves the problem.

Heckler: I'm currently running a Xeon 2.8 with 1 GB of RAM and an NVidia Quadro FX500.

RE: The Magic Disappearing Views!

Quote:

If I restart SW it solves the problem
Permanently for that drawing and model? Or does it happen again?

Does this happen with other files too?

cheers

RE: The Magic Disappearing Views!

(OP)
It happens with other files, randomly. I can go weeks without seeing it, then POOF! the view is gone. I'll get it fixed and saved again, and the issue disappears. It happen accross multiple machines even.

RE: The Magic Disappearing Views!

We have seen this
A work a round is to convert the view to draft quality the when you print check the box convert draft quality to high quality  
Another thing to try is tern the image quality down a notch or 2

RE: The Magic Disappearing Views!

I've done manxJim's work-around a number of times.

We've also used another work-around, with good results, but it doesn't always work:  Click in the view, then switch that view to wireframe and then back to what it was.

RE: The Magic Disappearing Views!

Try a Forced Rebuild with Ctrl Q

RE: The Magic Disappearing Views!

vacuumdesigner,

   I had that problem and I think I have fixed it.

   Probably, you are doing two things.

  1. You are allowing SolidWorks to switch views to draft mode.
  2. In the print window you have clicked "Convert draft quality drawing views to high quality".
   Turn off the "Convert draft quality.." button.

   Click on each of your drawing views and look in the browser under "Display Style".  This probably will indicate draft mode.  Turn this off.  On old, converted drawings, the option disappears, which is fine by me.

                           JHG

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