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CATIA V5, Drafting, All "View" icons deactivated and grayed out

CATIA V5, Drafting, All "View" icons deactivated and grayed out

CATIA V5, Drafting, All "View" icons deactivated and grayed out

(OP)
I'm having an odd issue with CATIA. The "view" icons of the drafting bench are deactivated. I'm not sure if I did this myself by changing something in the settings by accident.



Any pointers on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated!

RE: CATIA V5, Drafting, All "View" icons deactivated and grayed out

(OP)
As a follow up, this is the Options. The settings for Geometry/Dress-up are also deactivated.

RE: CATIA V5, Drafting, All "View" icons deactivated and grayed out

first open cat part or assy. without that you cant create a view.
to edit options run catia in admin mode

RE: CATIA V5, Drafting, All "View" icons deactivated and grayed out

(OP)
Hi JeniaL, I have a part open also. Do you know what I need to modify in the options (form admin mode?) to remedy the view deactivation?

RE: CATIA V5, Drafting, All "View" icons deactivated and grayed out

try to reset setting to default or you can delete all settings.
path for settings
C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\DassaultSystemes\CATSettings
i always keep a backup of last good configurations of settings. i can restore all of my settings in a sec to last known good config.

RE: CATIA V5, Drafting, All "View" icons deactivated and grayed out

(OP)
Ok, thanks for your help Jenial. I just figured out what it was, for some reason I had set CATIA into "Small Scale" mode, which doesn't appear to be compatible with Drafting. I have now reset into "Normal Scale" and all appears well.

So in summary completely my fault upsidedown

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