Blank Drawing Screen
Blank Drawing Screen
(OP)
Having used DraftSight sucessfully. For no apparent reason, when I now open an existing drawing, or start a new drawing, there are no entities visible on the screen? I can, using window or crossing select entities, as the grips appear! If I do a print preview, it is all there!. But looking at the screen in 'drawing mode' there is nothing to be seen!?!





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Have you set any coloured layers?
Try resetting the elements to default at Tools > Options > System options > Display > Element Colors
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The jpg's attached, are;
ds-01 - sample drawing opened (notice blank screen)
ds-02 - entities selected using crossing (obviously there IS something out there)
ds-03 - the print preview (preview of current view with monochrome plot style)
Why things are not visible is a mystery. I have tried the usual tricks used in AutoCAD with hidden layers, changing colours et al
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I usually work in ACAD on a black screen with colored lines which makes me far less tired at the end of the day than looking into a bright flickering screen at a fixed 96hz rate. I notice that the DS can't do this. I tried to set the display options to black or blue for the Sheet Background but it didn't seem to work. I get white only. But resetting the selected item at least made the drawings visible - black on white.
Because of the rules of the "man-in-charge" here they don't like layers and colors. Black on white is the rule but some have their ACAD set different so as a temp contractor I have been tasked with editing and making changes to several hundred drawings. This includes changing all element colors to b/w. I select all and then pull down the colors list and select the small square that is half black, half white. This lets them all see it the way they want.
But not in DS. Thanks for the tip, though, I can now see the drawings.
Frank Reid
Reid Engineering Services of Utah
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May be a bug. Yesterday, I added a red color-by-layer, and drew several lines. Today, the copy problem occured. Tried closing and reopening drawing, seeing the same thing happen.
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Shortly after this behaviour commences with a drawing, it becomes impossible to even draw a line. Upon clicking the 'Specify start point' the line may start from anywhere on OR off the screen.
It is as though the pointer is has lost its reference and or proportionality to the mouse movement?
I have 5 useless drawings now so any help would be much appreciated!
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any help...
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I encountered the same problem and found a circle with radius zero in that part of the drawing that couldn't be copied correctly any more. Please see on attached drawing the small point where the arrow aims at. Once this point is part of the selection for copying it will cause problems. To solve erase that point, or increase the radius above zero (in the properties).
I do not know where it comes from but suspect it has something to do with clipboardcopy or lost endpoint of dimension lines. It's just a guess.
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I'm new here and I registered because of this thread. I have the same problem. A couple of weeks ago I opened one of my old dwg drawings and nothing was visible. Since then I could not see anything. I can select objects, lines, etc... but I can't see them. I tried all the advices and nothing helped.
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Can you post a sample problem file?
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Have you tried copying the settings from one of the good computers to the problem one?
thread1480-314326: export drafsight settings
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Many thanks for your response and glad to hear it is not just unique 'finger trouble' my end. I think you are probably onto the problem because this only happens on a drawing containing a site survey with many 'spot points' on which to hang a dimension or note. I can see no way of giving a finite radius to so many hidden circles within a complicated drawing.
DraftSight is becoming increasingly bizarre in that it now loads up with ALL the menu bars missing. Absolutely nothing on the entire screen! Time for a re-instal and another try.
Again, thanks, and I'll watch this space to see what other users are expeiencing similar problems.
Mark6145
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Frank
One test is worth a thousand expert opinions. - Dan Joos, test engineer
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Some background:
I used Draftsight in Windows XP...worked great. I recently upgraded to Windows 7, no computer hardware changes. I reinstalled Draftsight and got the same issues described in this thread, with a twist. I had embedded a Visio file in my .DWG file, which worked fine before updating to Windows 7. I thought it was an issue with the embedded Visio file, but then I noticed that creating a new drawing from scratch also showed that any drawing would not display correctly. I updated the graphics card driver and now I can see my drawings, new and old and with embedded Visio files.
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It seems that everyone has now reolved the problem by either changing version of DS, changing graphics card or computer. My version 8.4.274 has now been working fine for 40 days so - fingers crossed!
Thanks for all the help from everyone, specially STKRAPP.
Signing of now
Mark6145