Assembly problems
Assembly problems
(OP)
Recently with opening some assemblies we have run across a problem where parts simply do not appear. The parts are shown in the feature tree, but you can try to highlight them in the tree or mouse over them where they should be on the assembly, but you do not get an outline or anything of the part. We have tried rebuilding and force rebuild(CTRL-Q) but this does not work.
The only thing that resolves this is to open the part from the assembly. When the part opens the screen is simply blank but if you do a rebuild it finally appears. Once you save the part and go back to the assembly, the part finally appears on the assembly.
We have tried opening these assemblies on multiple workstations with different workstation configurations and the same thing happens. All of the machines are running SW 2004 with SP 3.
If anybody knows why this is occurring please let me know.
The only thing that resolves this is to open the part from the assembly. When the part opens the screen is simply blank but if you do a rebuild it finally appears. Once you save the part and go back to the assembly, the part finally appears on the assembly.
We have tried opening these assemblies on multiple workstations with different workstation configurations and the same thing happens. All of the machines are running SW 2004 with SP 3.
If anybody knows why this is occurring please let me know.






RE: Assembly problems
Almost sounds like a file corruption.
Does this happen on newly-built assemblies?
(I'm taking for granted the parts in the assembly are not "hidden" or suppressed, but that this is an assembly file problem.)
Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC
http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com
RE: Assembly problems
Also are you using a supported video card and driver?
RE: Assembly problems
RE: Assembly problems
The problem is occurring on all of the assemblies for this project and they range from ten to a few hundred parts. The standard/purchase parts are fine but all of the newly designed parts seem to have this problem and all of the parts are developed in house.
Workstations all have SW certified cards and drivers and problem exists on each machine. The files are located on a Novell server and are using client version 4.90 SP1a.
Workstation config #1:
P4 2.8ghz
1GB RAM
3DLabs Wildcat VP560
Workstation config #2:
P3 933mhz
784MB RAM
3DLabs Oxygen VX1
RE: Assembly problems
Try copying all the necessary files to a local machine & opening the assy from there?
RE: Assembly problems
I am guessing here. Would you do a test? In the SolidWorks main menu click File, then Find References…
In the Search Results window is all the location of parts that disappear in a known location?
We had a similar problem when one designer would use Explore to copy files for the rest of us. His assemblies were on the network, which he copied ok, but some of the files were on his C:\ drive where not copied. When he opened it everything was fine.
Bradley
RE: Assembly problems
I tried moving the files locally but had the same problems. I also checked the reference locations and everything was in the right location.
RE: Assembly problems
Now what I would do, is zip up the files you just moved locally. Then send them to your VAR and see what they can find.
Bradley