Myself and others in my company are having a very frustrating issue with display styles not showing properly in SolidWorks Drawings, espically not when we try to save to PDF.
We have been creating drawings between 10 and 60 pages long for many years and we only started having this issue towards the end of October, and initially if we just restarted SolidWorks it would resolve itself, but now nothing seems to fix it. We are currently having to screen grab drawings to release anything.
Each sheet in the drawing has multiple views, generally one or two views of an assembly, and then several views of parts within that assembly; or multiple views of a weldment, with multiple views selecting bodies within the weldment.
The issue is that the display style shows differently than what is selected. For example, for a view that is supposed to be shaded with edges might show up as any of the other views, or even shaded with hidden lines visible (which I didn't even know that was display style). For a view that is supposed to be Hidden lines removed, it will leave centermarks, centerlines, notes, dimensions, etc, visible, but the actual part edges are removed so the part disappears. Sometimes it will even have the top half of the view as a different display style than the bottom half. The most bizarre thing that happens is changing the display style in one view will very rarely change the display style shown for a different view altogether, or add hidden items to the Bill of Materials on that page.
This is not effecting a single file, nor single package in particular, but rather almost any drawing package we have made since October (around 40 GB of different files). IT is also not effecting a single computer, but drawing packages created by 2 of our 8 computers with SolidWorks.
Here is when the display styles show incorrectly:
Viewing a SolidWorks Drawing in SolidWorks after saving
Viewing a SolidWorks Drawing as read only in SolidWorks
Viewing a SolidWorks Drawing in eDrawings
Viewing a eDrawings Drawing in eDrawings
PDF's created through the Save As PDF command in SolidWorks
PNG's (and all other image formats) created through the Save As command
PDF's created through Print to Microsoft PDF in SolidWorks
PDF's created through Print to Microsoft PDF in eDrawings
Physical paper printed on by the Print command
Here are the steps we have taken to try to resolve it:
Rebuild sheet
Redraw sheet
Force Rebuild sheet
Cycle back and forth between different display styles
Have RealView on, or Off
Restart Computer (then try rebuilding, etc.)
Unplug one monitor
Replace both monitos with different brand
Replace both monitors with 1K resolution instead of 2K
Replace both monitors with 4K resolution instead of 2K
Trying practically every setting in Performance or Image Quality (then restart SW, rebuild, etc)
Open file referenced in view, rebuild that document, then rebuild sheet
Uninstall graphics driver recommended by Nvidia and install graphics drive recommended by SolidWorks (then reboot, rebuild)
Run SolidWorks in Safe mode, then rebuild, etc.
Run SolidWorks in OpenGL mode, then rebuild, etc.
Completely reinstall SolidWorks
Wipe harddrive, reinstall windows, and SolidWorks
Swapping out Quadro graphics card for GEFORCE
Upgrading from SP 4.1 to SP 5.0
Recreate all parts, assemblies, and drawings in OpenGL mode
Saving each sheet as a separate PDF
Saving each sheet as a separate drawing, then saving to PDF
Open the drawing package on a computer not effected by the bug
The drawing packages created on these 2 computers will not display correctly on other computers Including
A computer that has the exact specs as the 2 effected
A computer that has identical specs, but is running Windows 7 instead of Windows 10
A computer that has an Intel Graphics card instead of Nvidia
A computer running SolidWorks 2018
Here are the specs of the two computers:
Windows 10 Pro
SolidWorks 2017 Premium SP 4.1
Intel i7-4770
32 GB of RAM
Nvdiai Quardo M4000
Any help you can provide would be great as we are at our wit's end with this issue.