Help! My components have disappeared!

I have a assembly file of under a 100 components in it and all of a
sudden some of them "disappeared". I opened the individual part files
and they are also "invisible". They are not suppressed, set to
Lightweight mode or hidden in any way. Upon seeing this I closed the
program and decided to reboot. As it was rebooting, 4 error messages
showed up like rapid fire, and I was unable to catch what it said
before it proceeded to reboot. Has any had this happen before? What
did you do to fix it? Thanks in advance!

Katie

 

I have not seen something like this except when a hard drive starts to
die.

Be sure you immediately backup EVERYTHING in your data files, and I
hope to gosh you have backup tapes from the day before.

I do not know whether you are working off of a server or what, but this
sounds like SAFETY is the immediate concern, until you know a LOT more
than now.

Bo

 

Forgot to be as clear as I might, in that it can obviously be a number
of hardware or software issues.

If I had the problem, and I worked on critical parts, I would instantly
move to another PC for safety's sake until I knew what really happened.

Bo

 

I have a assembly file of under a 100 components in it and all of a

This happens most usually if SolidWorks has crashed and SW has opened a
backup copy of the assembly. In a such case you have to open each individual
part file ('duh!) and hit CTRL-Q (aka. Force Rebuild(tm)) to fix the
problem. Have you tried this?

-h-

 

Good point if indeed that "backup" was the problem.

I simply haven't had this type of problem occur, so this is new to me,
and I'll remember your suggestion.

After early problems with SolidWorks, I just stopped putting my PC on a
network of any type, and my SolidWorks productivity jumped, as OS &
Swks issues almost completely disappeared.

That is unacceptable to most companies and users, but "it works" in
more ways than one.

2nd computers for miscellaneous work, are garden variety & sold at
peanuts pricing, though, so maybe there is more to TCO analysis than
sometimes considered when it comes to professional work.

Bo

 

I had this happen in drawing mode. I went back to the assys had to
re-save, then my assy dwg views came back ok.

 

Is this problem something associated only with SWks 2006 or 2007 or
more versions?

Thanks - Bo

 

i am seeing this also. occoasionally we are either opening an
assembly/part or just working in an assembly/part. for the assembly
one of my users deleted one part from the tree and immediately hit
UNDO. this shows the assembly again. not good but it works. on part
files we close and re-open and part is now visible again, another not
good but works. SWx 2006 SP3.4 and i reported it to my var who cannot
replicate the item but did submit it to SWx corp. iQ

and i am still looking for the good SWx version/SP, may have a long
wait.

 

I have had some parts turn transparent or partly transparent a couple
of times. Mostly with an assembly similar to the size you are working
with and after a couple of hours of work. I have always suspected this
to be sometype of memory leak, probalby in the video card or driver.
You may want to make sure that the card is approved and you have the
right driver. I have always been able to correct this by rebooting.

Hope this helps.

 

If you are seeing error message look in event viewer to find out what
they are. See help under the Start Menu to find out how to access event
viewer.