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Disappearing drafting entities


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2022

This is becoming very frustrating. We use viewsheets extensively (as the graphics for setup sheets), the drafting entities randomly disappear from the screen, only in created viewsheets, not in the main viewsheet (viewsheet 1). The entities are there if you run screen statistics, but they are not displayed, eventually they will comeback, but we have no idea what brings them back. It is not universal, in the same file, some viewsheets will do this & some won't. And is random AF, Close the file & reopen it and completely different sheets will be effected.

If anyone else is experiencing this and has found a solution, please enlighten us.

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This can be caused by many things including the good old video card excuse.

However, most of the times when I have trouble like this it's my fault

2 big causes of this for me are Section Views and the " only display associative entities" in the Toolpath Manager.

I cause this problem using Viewsheets as well, inadvertently turning Levels off or on when I shouldn't

It might be worthwhile to review the Viewsheet settings page. They add new field on that page periodically

There are a few in there that I have no idea what they do, like "Display Mode"

In my case I have that turned off, and I have no idea what it does.. Help is no help.

 

 

 

 

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Same thing happens for me as well. Maybe once or twice a week I'll switch viewsheets and all my drafting entities are gone. I twiddle my thumbs for a minute or two and they usually pop back up. I always thought this was just because Mastercam takes a little extra time to load drafting entities, but maybe that's not the case? I never looked for a solution because it doesn't affect me very frequently. Plus, like I said before, after waiting a minute or two the drafting entities usually all pop back up.

For reference, I'm running Mcam 2022 as well.

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Resetting the BLANK_BIT(Blank - Unblank) usually resets the graphics for me..

For the chook-ers out there,a quick function that calls RebuildGraphics or iterates the database and calls a draw function on all the Drafting Notes should bring the notes back, blank unblank would probably also work

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