We are still currently working in 2009. Whenever I try to open a file or create a new file, be it from our server or from my hard drive, solidworks seems to go crazy by making the actual part and all toolbars dissappear. Its not a lost references issue or a show/hide issue. The feature control frame dissappears, the modeling window goes blank, and all toolbars dissappear. Whenever you close out of the part or assembly, the toolbars and reappear. We have tried restarting solidworks, shutting down the computer, and running Solidworks Rx, all to no avail. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I was able to get the graphical view and feature manager pulled back up by hiding all of the toolbars. Once we got to this point we were able to place toolbars back to their location, until i tried using CommandManager. When I tried turning CM back on it reverted back to the same issue of losing the FeaturnManager and Viewport.
Also now that the viewport and FM is back up, we are having an issue getting the parts themselves to show up. We can highlight the part or feature and get them to show up momentarily, but once you click off of that part or feature it dissappears again. I am thinking that this is more of a graphics card issue rather than a soliworks issues but we are open to trying any suggestions.