Center Marks appearing 1/2" to the right of the Hole

[jwlynn64]

Has anyone ever had a problem with the center marks showing up off center of the holes? I have a drawing view (partial aligned view) of a part and when I try to insert center marks in my threaded holes, they show up about 1/2" to the right of the actual hole.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Does this happen with other similar parts and drawings?

Does it happen on other computers?

Can you zip the drawing and file and post here?

 

[AnnaWood]

Do a ctrl-q rebuild of your drawing. Do they snap back to the proper location after the rebuild?

I had this happen in earlier versions of SW. I am thinking mabe SW2006 or before.

What version and SP of SW are you using?

Cheers,

Anna Wood
SW2008 SP5.0, Windows Vista SP1
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[AnnaWood]

Nevermind, probably isn't the issue I suspect.

Key point in the post is the view is a partial aligned view.

Might be a bug with the aligned view.

What does your VAR say about the problem?

Cheers,

Anna Wood
SW2008 SP5.0, Windows Vista SP1
IBM ThinkPad T61p, T7800, FX570M, 4 gigs of RAM

http://www.solidmuse.com

http://www.phxswug.com

 

[ctopher]

Try a tighter tolerance. (just kidding)

Maybe the center marks are somehow connecting to geometry behind the holes? Could be various reasons. As CBL suggested, if you can attach the files here we can see the issue.

Chris
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[jwlynn64]

I don't know what the problem was. I deleted and recreated the view and the centermark works as advertised.

It was a drawing made by a person no longer here so I don't know exactly how he made the view. The view was also rotated so maybe that had something to do with it.

If anyone is interested, I have uploaded the original "not fixed" file. I couldn't see anything wrong so I am interested in what you find.

http://www.dropfiles.net//files/3394/CenterMarkIssue.zip

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Hmmm, that's weird. Thanks for posting.

 

[DesignerGuy16]

I've seen it a lot in aligned / auxiliary views. I just delete them and go without. Not much else you can do.

James Spisich
Design Engineer, CSWP

 

[SteveJJH]

i've been having issues with drawings not updating, even when you tell it to. it can cause the results you're describing. (i suspect it's a bug in SW2009SP2.0 that has been fixed)

one way round it seems to be to go to the model and perform some sort of significant feature (such as a cut extrude), then get rid of it, then go back to the drawing and update.

 

[jwlynn64]

I don't think that this problem is 2009 dependent. I have had similar problems. The think that I do that seems to work is to change the view from whatever format it is in (hidden lines, no hidden lines, etc....) to another format. Then switch back. That seems to fix it.