I am working on a project, I do not know what I did or if I did something but now I cannot use the undo or redo command.Also when I want to use commands like offset, mirror, I use the command and then I need to draw another line in order for the previous command to work.
I also got a error saying automatic solving is not turned on, I turned it on but it didn't help.
If I try to use the same commands on another drawing they work
I don't think so,.I tried closing the drawing and opening up again but didn't work.
if I copy the drawing from the drawing that is not working to a new one then it works fine
I would uninstall SW, clean up registry, create Administrative Image and reinstall SW using Administrative Image.
Andrei Cosmin wrote:
if I copy the drawing from the drawing that is not working to a new one then it works fine
Since your were able to copy the drawing and the new one is all right, maybe the problem is restricted to that one file. Delete it, keep working on the new one, and move on.
I tried it but it didn't work.
I though copying it worked but it didn't I still have this problem. Anything else I can do ?
If I offset or mirror a line the line does not appear but if I click around the area where the offsetting or mirroring was done I can click on the line nad it shows its "borders"
Can it be that there are too many things to draw on the drawing ( like hatch, lines, etc ) and the program can't render them all or the right way?
I tried copying it again on a new drawing and now I see that some hatches that I did don't appear but it works fine now.
In case like this one you have no choice but contact your SW VAR (Value-Added Reseller).
Check your settings, if SW backup folder even exists:
Switch to Auto
CAD or a another CAD software that is less buggy than SolidWorks! FYI every year it has been getting worse... since 2007!
Brian Marks wrote:
Switch to Auto
CAD or a another CAD software that is less buggy than SolidWorks! FYI every year it has been getting worse... since 2007!
No thank you.
Yah I don't like that option either Glenn but SW is getting so bad over the past few years it is becoming a chore to get out of bed and go to work. It crashes on avg 1 per 8 working days... 9 hours. Hangs up or acts up seriously enough to cause me to lose time/work DAILY. Plus settings keep turning themselves on and off as it pleases forcing me to limp on or to waste more time trying to figure out why tits not working right this time. I call the VAR waste MUCH more time...."they fix it" .... then within a month's time or less it is acting up again.
I call the VAR we go through this all over again.... new fix. NOPE! The very next day it is crap again.
Right now I have three files up the Undo/Redo are working fine on....but one it won't. Close, open. reboot, nothing!!! Close, open, reboot.... this time it works! WTF!!!!!!! I'm sorry, but back in 2007 I thought SW was the Greatest thing since sliced bread... Now I know it too well to be fooled!
Hello Andrei,.. maybe Resetting SOLIDWORKS Windows Registry Entry (that is, so you are assured it did NOT pick up old settings during the uninstall/reinstall?)
Personally, I find that SW has gotten significantly better from 2014 to 2018, starting gradually in 2014 and picking up the pace on their way to 2018.
Of course there are certain things which stretch on to other versions before being fixed. You should have a look at the Knowledge Base and look just how many SPR they have implented in the last year.
With that being said, have you tried doing a ''Save-as'' of your part to a new location? Sometimes doing that clears the cache in the file and fixes it. If it does fix it, you can then ''Save as'' over the old one to correct it and voilà!
Brian,
I know you might not want to hear this, but it's likely there's something going on on your end that's causing the frequent crashes. This argument has been hashed out here repeatedly, but many of us work for days and weeks without a single crash.
Hey Glenn,
When you say you can go on days and weeks without a single crash, how often do you restart your SolidWorks? How big are your projects..?
I tend to restart mine every 2.5 hours or so just to clear everything out of it's memory. If I go on a whole day without restarting it then it will generally crash eventually.
Of course, I work with rather large assemblies that tend to have between 1000 to 7500 components, so that might be the cause of it.
The project I'm working on now is fairly typical. The drawing is 5,131 KB and 4 sheets (though I often have drawings with 10 or more sheets). The top level assembly is 1,270 KB, and other information on it is posted below.
I typically only shut down SW and re-start it when I reboot my computer, which I often only do about twice a week.
My problem, I'm guessing, is the depth of my assemblies. They can go from between 5 to up to 15(probably even more, I'd say 15 is the depth we use in the master assembly, excluding the sub-assemblies)
I don't work with lightweight or complex-mode assemblies because I find them unreliable so that is out of the question
In comparison, this assembly is 7 500KB and it's drawing is 16 000KB and 2 sheets. I don't use ''Draft quality'' because the result is awful in terms of printing drawings.
I have in the past also! Back before the File architecture change,... back before so MANY of these New features were added....
And there just might be something going on with my computer.... Our VAR has tried everything but still bad. I think it has more to do with BAD code and bugs which react with other software negatively... but who am I ... just a measly Draftsman/designer.....
Hear Hear!!! You preach it Alex!!!! I restart and run RX more than once a day... Every morning at start up and EVERY time SW hiccups and acts like it is ready to crash.......
I hope you meant SolidWorks and now RX because RX has no use in fixing problems or crashes, it is used to report them
Do you work with large assemblies too? We have certain trailers which are much smaller in terms of details then others and people who work on those generally don't need to restart as much if at all.
Undo and Redo do not work consistently. If you save the file oftentimes you cannot undo anything. Think of the undo and redo buttons as suggestions and most of the time Solidworks is going to deny your request. If it does work, consider yourself lucky.
Is there a hidden dialog box open??