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Photoview not updating with SW file

Question asked by Lee Bazalgette on Jul 21, 2010
Latest reply on Jul 22, 2010 by Jerry Sharber

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Hi,

I'm trying to render an assembly from SW with Photoview360. I have acheived great results, but I've now had to make changes to the original SW assembly. The problem is that when I open the assembly in P360 it shows the old file as I originally rendered it. I did use the 'save' feature in PV360 as I wanted to keep my changes... but it's ridiculous if following that I cant see model updates from Solidworks!

Thanks for any help.

PS - please dont say I have so save the assembly as a new file each time I want to update in PV360.

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Lee Bazalgette Jul 21, 2010 4:41 AM

Found one solution: if I save the assembly out as a STEP file, then save and close the SW assembly is updated in PV360.

Just pressing rebuild or CNTRL+Q before saving didn't have the same result.

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Greg Hynd @ Lee Bazalgette on Jul 21, 2010 4:46 AM

do a file, save as, and overwrite the original.

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1-4EQZK9 Jul 21, 2010 11:58 AM

Hi Lee,

Did you see this thread in which I responsed to David's question: https://forum.solidworks.com/message/167560#167560

Regards

Mark

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Lee Bazalgette @ 1-4EQZK9 on Jul 21, 2010 12:55 PM

hi mark,

I read the thread - but it wasn't the appearances I was having trouble with, but actual features / model shape differences. Seems as though PV is using the preview data rather than the actual SW surfaces, so you have to force the preview data to update. Unfortunatly, using rebuild, or CNTRL-Q wasn't doing that. However, using save-as or exporting the file to STEP seemed to make a difference.

I'm using SW2009 for this by the way, maybe 2010 is better but I've not got to it yet!

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Jerry Sharber @ Lee Bazalgette on Jul 22, 2010 2:03 PM

I am using SW2010 and having the same problem with PV360 not updating assemblies.

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Lee Bazalgette Jul 21, 2010 4:41 AM
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Found one solution: if I save the assembly out as a STEP file, then save and close the SW assembly is updated in PV360.

Just pressing rebuild or CNTRL+Q before saving didn't have the same result.
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- Greg Hynd @ Lee Bazalgette on Jul 21, 2010 4:46 AM
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  do a file, save as, and overwrite the original.
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1-4EQZK9 Jul 21, 2010 11:58 AM
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Hi Lee,

Did you see this thread in which I responsed to David's question: https://forum.solidworks.com/message/167560#167560

Regards

Mark
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- Lee Bazalgette @ 1-4EQZK9 on Jul 21, 2010 12:55 PM
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  hi mark,
  
  I read the thread - but it wasn't the appearances I was having trouble with, but actual features / model shape differences. Seems as though PV is using the preview data rather than the actual SW surfaces, so you have to force the preview data to update. Unfortunatly, using rebuild, or CNTRL-Q wasn't doing that. However, using save-as or exporting the file to STEP seemed to make a difference.
  
  I'm using SW2009 for this by the way, maybe 2010 is better but I've not got to it yet!
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  - Jerry Sharber @ Lee Bazalgette on Jul 22, 2010 2:03 PM
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    I am using SW2010 and having the same problem with PV360 not updating assemblies.
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