Easy question for someone....I like my assembly to have the
shaded edges visible. Every time I add a mate, switch configs, or
rebuild, it switches to the shaded view and I have to swich back.
How do I fix that?
Joe and Charles I have had both of your problems at times,
mostly the edges disappearing.
I also have tangent edges show or hide independent of the tangent
edge display setting in parts and assemblies
It's another one of those fun switches in the
tools>options area that turns on and off on it's own, in the
same boat as the cosmetic threads and the load parts light weight
switches.
I've had this happen to me quite a few times. If You go to options
and go down to "display/selection" section you'll see a
"part/assembly tangent edge display". try clicking one of the other
buttons and then clicking it back to the one you want.
Actually, I'm not talking about tangent edges. I'm talking
about all edges, in the "edges shown" or "edges hidden" mode while
looking at models (not in drawings). My "tangent edges" option
stays put at "phantom".
Now this is weird! I have never had this problem until the
other day - the problem being it switched to shaded only by itself.
Maybe it is a SW2009 SP2.1 issue? What I can say is that it
happened on a fairly big fully resolved assembly.
I have only had this problem with large assemblies- never with a
single part or small assembly. Another thing I have noticed is that
the Shaded With Edges will be on when I open a large assembly in
lightweight- when I choose to resolve all, it will turn off.
I am wondering if it may be a built-in performance switch that SW
added to 2009? I notice that Shaded With Edges slows down the
graphics with large assemblies vs. standard Shaded mode.
Do you only see it when you are working in Large Assembly
Mode? I know they added extra controls for Large assy mode in 2009.
It seems like this may have been one of them.
Yes, I was in Large Assembly Mode. For some reason it hasn't
been happening as much today, but I'll keep an eye on it. I saw in
the documentation that the LAM default is to NOT display edges.
For my issue, I do not have large assembly mode on. It
happens in part files and assemblies. Also note that my SW turns ON
the edges, thus it is not done to optimize anything; in theory it
makes it run slower.
Is it possible to retain the Display Style in .STEP? I want my .step file to open Shaded with Edges, and no matter what I try, it always reverts to Shaded Mode. I don't seem to be having this problem with assemblies.
You might be able to do what you want by editing the Default Templates that SolidWorks uses when it imports files. You could either edit the files themselves or point SolidWorks to the templates that you would rather use. Look under Tools/Options/System Options/Default Templates.
Interestingly, this is one of those off and on problems I've had across 3 companies and on installations at several different school labs on a variety of computers that I've seen go unfixed for almost a decade now. It happens more with our bigger assemblies, but why are there so many of these weird, stupid bugs deeply engrained in solidworks that have existed for all time and show no signs of change? et
Why still the many attributes that can't be used in equations, why still the many rebuild glitches, why still the flexible assembly errors, why still the dozens of awful graphics bugs, why the sheet metal properties overlapping issues, etc? How are these so persistent? Is solidworks simply ignoring all bug reports forever? Have they simply not tried to clean up the software since they first came out with it?
I mean, don't get me wrong, I like the software, I use it daily, but I feel like I spend half of my time dealing with it getting hung up on something simple, taking 5 minutes to select a part, randomly deciding it can't rotate view at more than a few degrees every few seconds in short bursts, etc. Like what's going on over there? Are you programmers being held hostage and need help or something? I want to migrate to a less buggy software pack, but Solidworks is rent-seeking the industry so how do we fix errors like this, just live with using junk software until all the big players move away and allow us to do the same? *sigh* bi-yearly annoying, forever unfixed, frustrating bug rant concluded until next year, or 2050 when solidworks has had new icons 20 more times but still hasn't fixed a single bug since 2010.
I have had the same issue for several years when editing large assemblies or importing large .stp/.igs models.
I have moved past this little quirk by setting up custom keyboard shortcut keys for shaded with edges.
This actually persuaded me to setup additional shortcuts for wire frame, hidden lines removed, and hidden lines visible as I was getting tired of all the extra mouse movement and clicks.
I also have tangent edges show or hide independent of the tangent edge display setting in parts and assemblies
I've had this happen to me quite a few times. If You go to options and go down to "display/selection" section you'll see a "part/assembly tangent edge display". try clicking one of the other buttons and then clicking it back to the one you want.
I have only had this problem with large assemblies- never with a single part or small assembly. Another thing I have noticed is that the Shaded With Edges will be on when I open a large assembly in lightweight- when I choose to resolve all, it will turn off.
I am wondering if it may be a built-in performance switch that SW added to 2009? I notice that Shaded With Edges slows down the graphics with large assemblies vs. standard Shaded mode.
WT
SW2009 SP2.1
XP64
Thanks for the good feedback.
Is it possible to retain the Display Style in .STEP? I want my .step file to open Shaded with Edges, and no matter what I try, it always reverts to Shaded Mode. I don't seem to be having this problem with assemblies.
Matthew,
You might be able to do what you want by editing the Default Templates that SolidWorks uses when it imports files. You could either edit the files themselves or point SolidWorks to the templates that you would rather use. Look under Tools/Options/System Options/Default Templates.
Jerry S.
Interestingly, this is one of those off and on problems I've had across 3 companies and on installations at several different school labs on a variety of computers that I've seen go unfixed for almost a decade now. It happens more with our bigger assemblies, but why are there so many of these weird, stupid bugs deeply engrained in solidworks that have existed for all time and show no signs of change? et
Why still the many attributes that can't be used in equations, why still the many rebuild glitches, why still the flexible assembly errors, why still the dozens of awful graphics bugs, why the sheet metal properties overlapping issues, etc? How are these so persistent? Is solidworks simply ignoring all bug reports forever? Have they simply not tried to clean up the software since they first came out with it?
I mean, don't get me wrong, I like the software, I use it daily, but I feel like I spend half of my time dealing with it getting hung up on something simple, taking 5 minutes to select a part, randomly deciding it can't rotate view at more than a few degrees every few seconds in short bursts, etc. Like what's going on over there? Are you programmers being held hostage and need help or something? I want to migrate to a less buggy software pack, but Solidworks is rent-seeking the industry so how do we fix errors like this, just live with using junk software until all the big players move away and allow us to do the same? *sigh* bi-yearly annoying, forever unfixed, frustrating bug rant concluded until next year, or 2050 when solidworks has had new icons 20 more times but still hasn't fixed a single bug since 2010.
I have had the same issue for several years when editing large assemblies or importing large .stp/.igs models.
I have moved past this little quirk by setting up custom keyboard shortcut keys for shaded with edges.
This actually persuaded me to setup additional shortcuts for wire frame, hidden lines removed, and hidden lines visible as I was getting tired of all the extra mouse movement and clicks.