I have a a problem with an assembly file which has always worked: when I open it I can see everything, but a few seconds later a window appears and apparently some data cannot be found and a few seconds later all the components are gone because they are suppressed. I can still see them on the left side, so i tried to unsuppress them, but it doesn't work. The same thing happened to two files. Does anyone have any advice?
Thank you for your response. Unfortunately I cannot even open the single components because access is denied. I don't really know why because they are in the same folder as they always used to be. Also, the strangest thing is that when I first open the assembly file I can see the whole assembly very well with the colors of the single objects, their shape, etc. Then after a few seconds they disappear and the components names in the feature tree become lighter, as they were suppressed. I don't really know how to restore them.
If Dan Pihlaja advice not works, the worse keys scenario is: build two parts/sub-assemblies again with different names and replace corrupted.
Normally, when you open an assembly and the components are suppressed means that SolidWorks can no longer find those files. So the fact that you say the files have not mover, it is confusing. However you did state that you cannot open the component files which would lead me to believe they are not longer there.
The fact that you can see the components in the graphics window when you first open the assembly is not strange at all. Unless you turn off seeing the preview, you will see the solid bodies that SolidWorks has saved within the assembly. I believe these solid bodies are used to display the assembly when opened in eDrawings. When the assembly fully opens then the actual models are displayed. In your case because all the components are suppressed the graphics area goes blank.
Since you do not mention getting any error message when opening the assembly, I have to assume you have dismissed the suppress message that normally appears when a file cannot be found.
To see if the files are not being found, in the assembly, go to File, Find References... and see what is returned in the Find References window.
Have you moved the files to different location? Or renamed files straight from explorer?
No, the files have always been in the same folder, they haven't been modified, so that is very strange.
Click on the part in the feature tree and see if you can open from there, if you can then drop that part in the assembly and then un-surpress the one in the feature tree.
If you can't open the file, a dialog box should pop up asking if you want to find the file (meaning it was moved to another folder), follow the steps from there, you may have to search all your folders for those parts..
Thank you for your response. Unfortunately I cannot open the single components, a window opens saying that the access to the file in denied. The files have always been in the same folder, and were never removed nor modified.
Different question: when you make an assembly, you don't need the single components to open it, do you?
You surely have some serious issues, would it be possible to upload the offending file, just to see if someone can open it?
Can you open the Part files only?
Like Vladimir Urazhdin mentioned.
Not thru the Assembly, either SW open or from Windows explorer.
See the answer for this thread: "The file for this component has a non-matching internal ID"
I think that you have the same issue.
I would try a couple ways to deal with:
1. Open a both files first, and then assembly.
2. If it not helped, delete from assembly both and insert again.