Section Views causing SolidWorks to Crash

Are you running the section view on a solid part, or a part with surface bodies?

I have found that creating sections on surface body parts is pretty flaky, especially if the part is complicated and was imported from a STP or IGS file.

In such cases, I have had to resort to replacing the surface bodies with solid parts, either with import diagnostics or just by rebuilding it.

Well then, has your VAR done anything with your graphics cards?   Are you updated to the latest Solid Works approved driver version?  That has also, in the past, caused crashing issues with respect to drawings for me.

Outside of that, can you share one of the CAD models so that I can try it here?

I have experienced something like this before.  I found the issue was tied to reusing the drawing view letters.  I unchecked that option and it quit crashing.  I also found I could rename the views so no gaps in the view lettering existed but takes time to do.  Unchecking the option under Tools>Options>System Settings>Drawings was the easiest fix.  Hope it helps you get through this issue.

I am having this same issue in 2016 SP5. Whenever I throw a section view on a drawing the popup window is not there and I can't exit out or anything.

let me know if you find a solution cause we just added that check mark to the system options to try and keep from having a detail N as the first detail on the drawing.

Same issue with SW 2017 SP5.  Almost any sectioned view causes SW to crash immediately.  Anybody from SW have an answer?