My model dissapeared from the view... I can still highlight the edges and points but I cant see anything. Dimensions, balloons, and child views are still associated. I have done a rebuild, a redraw, and I don't know what it does but I saw other people talking about it... I hit CTRL+Q. I can't get my model back into the view.
Can you open the model from the View? Is it only this drawing?
Try reboot, does this fix it?
I can open the model via the view. It is the only one out of 5 that i checked, and there is a view in the drawing that references a different assembly that has not been affected. The reboot did not work either.
check to see if you accidentally made a display state with the body hidden. with a display state the body will be "hidden" but you can still select faces. not sure about edges.
did you check to see if the body has been hidden in the view properties? right click on the body, click properties then go to the show hide tab.
no, but the detail views child to it are doing the same thing
Can you see the model if you open that separately? Have you tried a reboot?
That looks like the body/part has been hidden. Check and make sure body/part is set to show.
I didn't hide the part, but when i RMB on the part in the view i don't get a show/hide button
Not over here but you need to check that that in the model. Wait some fairy did the trick.
I like the fairy. But I like the fixin' fairy that helped, not the breakin' fairy that put me here in the first place...
I don't know why this happened. Just after my last post I hit rebuild again in desperation and my model view came back.
Late to the party - but if it happens again do the right click a view to add a projected view, after you do that right click on the original view and select show, go back and delete the projected view.
Don't ask me why? Probably the same reason that I eat "Green Eggs and Ham"
Cool, I'm guessing you've seen this before so I'll mark it as an answer since mine fixed itself, if it happens again ill try it out.
Well it happened again. John, your way didn't work for me this time discussion re-opened.
how long has it been since you ran an Rx on your machine? this could be a time where your solidworks is just too clogged up with temp files or back up files.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves with SW drawings, sometime it just don't know what you want. This happens very infrequently, however when it arrives it is time consuming till you figure out what works.
A few other options to try;
Close the drawing file and open the Assembly file, and then open the drawing file and right click the hidden view and select show, I've noticed already that works at times, not always but.........
In the drawing file right click the hidden view and open the assembly from there, drop it outside the paper area and insert a perspective view from there, then right click on the original hidden drawing and select show.
I have had this problem several times when I renamed the files.
If I had saved the part and drawing with a file name and then renamed the files (or made a copy of each so I could make another similar part with the same core elements) the links seemed to partly break.
I would get the same type image (dimensions, comments, ... showed fine but the model view and all projected views would not show - but if you clicked on the area the model should show in there would be a dotted outline or red outline with diagonal lines to the corners instead of the model.
I would do as John said, RMB and SHOW, and USUALLY it would restore that view (then do the same for each view to restore all).
Sometimes I would have to try other things to get it to show but the final step was always the RMB and SHOW.
Now, I have learned to have both the part and drawing files open at the same time and do a "Save As" for each one with the new file name - and no more problems. Seemed that if I only opened one file and renamed and then opened the other it would mess up. I think also if you try to rename the drawing first (using save as) and then the Part, it would also not show the model in the drawing until the RMB and SHOW was done.
Did you rename or do a Save As on this part? Or something else similar before it gave the problem?
No, I was revising the part, so I had it and the drawing open at the same time, when I jumped from the part to the drawing viola!
Just for Sh*ts and giggles I went to Rx to run a Troubleshoot. This is what it sent me to after I put in my password... I,m pretty sure I JUST renewed my subscription at the suggestion of the new SW subscription policy. Am I missing something?? John, 10-4 ill give it a shot
After the crash I restarted and opened the part, then opened the drawing from within. All of the views are back, we will see how long it lasts.
Shane,
That used to happen to me fairly often, but has gotten better in later releases. When it happens, try switching to a different display style, such as Shaded with Edges, or Hidden Lines Shown, then switch back to the display style you want. That will usually fix it. If that doesn't work, try copying the drawing view (Ctrl+C) and then pasting it (Ctrl+V). If that works then you can delete the original view.
It happened again to me today and this worked first try!
