4 Replies Latest reply on Feb 24, 2011 3:22 AM by Mike Roberts

Sometimes sketches not appearing in drawings

Mike Roberts Feb 23, 2011 4:36 PM

Im on SW2010 sp 4.0

I have a drawing of an assembly & I need to show a sketch which is drawn on one of the parts in a sub assembly of this particular assembly (hope that makes sense!)

In the drawing Ive gone to the feature tree on the left hand side & r. clicked on the sketch & 'show sketch' & also made sure that View > sketches is ticked in the drop down toolbar

Trouble is sometimes the sketch isnt visible even when r. click & show sketch is on

If I then do r click 'hide sketch' & again do a r click 'show sketch' the sketch will appear, but will sometimes dissapear after a CTRL Q rebuild

The only way Ive got around the problem was to do a convert entities on the sketch in the drawing itself, but this isnt ideal

Its happening in more than one drawing Ive opened & obviously causes problems when a deadline is looming

Graphics card & its driver are approved N Vidia items

Re: Sometimes sketches not appearing in drawings

Scott McFadden Feb 23, 2011 4:44 PM (in response to Mike Roberts)

Mike, have you tried this?
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- Re: Sometimes sketches not appearing in drawings
  
  Mike Roberts Feb 24, 2011 3:07 AM (in response to Scott McFadden)
  
  Hi Scott
  
  Yes Ive ensured that Sketches is on from the dropdown menu
  
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Re: Sometimes sketches not appearing in drawings

Kelvin Lamport Feb 23, 2011 9:25 PM (in response to Mike Roberts)

Graphics card & its driver are approved N Vidia items
Approved by nVidia from it's own site, or by SolidWorks at http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html ?
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- Re: Sometimes sketches not appearing in drawings
  
  Mike Roberts Feb 24, 2011 3:22 AM (in response to Kelvin Lamport)
  
  Hi Kelvin
  At the moment were using a Nvidia Quadro FX 1800 & the driver is the latest off the nvidia site
  We've had endless problems in the past with ATI graphics cards (black screen & crashing) where the SOlidworks recommended drivers were behaving worse
  than the ones off the manufacturers site.
  From the advice off the net & here we replaced the cards with the above Nvidia ones & from the advice of support we tried the latest driver off the nvidia site too & alls been well
  (support mentioned that the manufacturers recommended drivers may be newer than the drivers recommended on the solidworks site, just that they hadnt been fully tested?)
  
  Incidentally Ive had this problem in the (pre SW 2008 I think) even when we were using a Solidworks recommended card & driver
  
  Thanks for the reply
  
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