I opened the drawing attached to this assembly and it came up with an odd issue. The lines in the attachment that appear to be hidden lines shouldn't be that way. When I open the subassembly that contains just the tank weldment, there aren't any issues. Hidden lines are, of course, removed; all other display styles seem to work fine. It doesn't appear to be showing the hidden lines, its just converting the standard lines into that format. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
I looked through the design tree on about a half dozen of the parts in the views that they are affected, and they all seem to have their line fonts set to the default.
*I also checked the assemblies
Are your tangent edges in those views shown "Tangent Edges with Font" or Visible or Removed?
It looks like what you get when Tangent Edges with Font.
Otherwise, I'd have to suggest something odd with layers and linetype included therein.
Tom,
I hate to disagree with you, but even the outside edges are showing as dotted, so there's something going on other than tangent edges (though that might be part of the issue).
That's ok. I welcome disagreement.
Without file, it's hard to diagnose. I've seen similar artifacts from TEwF on views. I've also seen wrong weights on same, as shown in image it appears they are heavy lines, not greyed weight. This could also be generated by several nearby lines visibly merging into a fat line in image. I'll repeat. Without file, it's hard to diagnose.
It's the Boundary dash-dot-dot linetype that threw me off.
Tangent edges are set to "visible." None of the settings for the tangent edges seem to make a difference to the parts that are affected.
Nice trailer. You are going to put a DEF tank on there too aren't you?
Sorry I can't help you with the lines, I think Glenn has the answer as I have had the same type of problem.
Thanks, my boss likes it! And yes, we have 50 gallon and 100 gallon DEF tank options! If you're in the market check out our website, www.sutterbuttesmfg.com. (I promise I'll stop advertising haha)
I drew up the first fuel tanks for a previous employer made about 6 years ago, but the boss kept changing everything as soon as the print hit the floor. Very frustrating.
Ah, that was before Solidworks had the "mindreader" function. It's still a little buggy now, but very useful.
Since you mentioned that you "opened" the drawing I'm wondering did you do the drawing yourself?.. Perhaps someone purposely changed the component line font or put that component on a different layer that uses that line font. Right click on the part and see what the component line font is and what layer it is using.
It does the same thing if I start a new drawing. I did delete the default configuration when I was working on it earlier, and I received a notice saying that the drawing was going to reference my last opened configuration. It has to be something to do with that, but I can't figure out exactly where it is.
Does destroying layers destroy objects on that layer, or strip those objects of its layer properties and leave them on None?
I'm shooting in the dark here.
While I'm stabbing in the dark, Is your video card driver version supported and certified?
Run Solidworks RX and check Diagnostics tab.
Jeremy Here is a link to my thread when I was having similar problems, I don't think your issue is quite the same as the parts show in some of the views but there might be some ideas for you.
You might be on to something. This is the first assembly that I started using envelope parts and the parts that I'm having issues with are the ones that have an envelope part in a subassembly.
So if I change the parts I have as envelopes I can solve my problem. I followed the steps listed in the other thread but it didn't change anything on my drawings. I'd really love to be able to keep the parts as envelopes; besides the issues with the drawings the feature is very helpful.
Can you have two configurations, one for modeling with envelopes on and one for drawings with envelopes off but selected for exclude from BOM?
That sounds possible but it wouldn't really follow how we handle configurations at the shop I work for. I ended up taking all of the parts out of envelope and just doing a hide/exclude from BOM. I don't like how it's difficult to determine where the dependencies are and the other problems that come along with doing it this way but it'll have to work for now. If I find a solution I'll definitely post it here.
In the Drawing, right-click on the Part that's showing the dotted lines, either in the graphics area or in the tree, and choose "Component Line Font..." from the drop-down. It looks like someone over-rode the line type there. Selecting "Default" at the top should bring it back to solid.