COLORS WHEN CREATING NEW PART IN ASSEMBLY

What has happened? When I create an in context part within an assembly and
start editing a sketch using the convert entities or drawing new entities I
can see the new sketch geometry when zoomed out but when I zoom in they are
not visible. They are there as you can mouse over them and the will show
up.
Please help.. thanks

 

Sounds to me like a video card issue. What are you running?

WT

 

Yep! I am getting exactly the same thing!!

not all the time , just sometimes, several times a day though.

I got a matrox g550 card which was passed by solidworks, but I am
reliably informed by people on here is crap!

What was i to know, im an engineer not a PC entusiast.

if it persists after next SP then i will tell my VAR, what good that
will do I dont know, i reckon the answer will be , yep oure card is
crap!!

Round and round and round!

such is life!!

Regards

Graeme

UK

 

Both suggestions noted, I have a 3dLabs Oxygen GVX1. Another thing I
discovered after the initial post was that I can start an assembly sketch
and the visibility is fine. I'm convinced that this is a setting that I
accidentally changed in Solidworks. I can go over to my co-worker's machine
and everything is fine. I tried the copy options utility and created a
registry file and even that did not correct the problem. could it be that
the video card has gone bad? I've never had one go bad before.