Annotation Update 1

[Keith1029]

Hi All,

Here is my sequence of events:
I am running SW 2009 SP 2.1 on a windows XP machine (also behaves the same on 64 bit vista)
1. Create model
2. Create Drawing from model using custom template, may or may not insert additional views.
3. Dimension and detail drawing using a mix of dimensions imported from the model and reference dimensions added in the drawing.
4. Save.
5. Close drawing or add new sheet and create second drawing.
6. Re-open Drawing or return to first sheet.
- Now here is where it starts getting aggravating-
Open with quick view is fine - as soon as the sheet tries to load fully the "Annotations Update" opens in my property window with "right click on annotations to toggle visibility. "New annotations will be hidden until selected." is shown in a message window and a "Show previously hidden annotations" check box is given in an options window. The problem is then that:
1. Some dimensions/annotations are automatically deleted.
2. Some annotations are moved to other views.
3. Some dimensions are switched to hidden
4. Some dimensions are moved to other views AND switched to hidden.
I then get to accept or cancel the annotations update – regardless of what I choose the changes are applied and my drawing is ruined and I have to start from scratch.
The real frustrating part is that this only happens when I open a drawing *Sometimes*. Is there a setting that I can use to turn this off, undo or negate this effect? I just want to return to a sheet and have it stay the same as it was when I saved it! Any help would be greatly appreciated. I need to fix this ASAP.

-Keith

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Graphics glitches like that are often caused by an incorrect video card and/or driver.

What graphics card and driver are you using?

 

[Keith1029]

I am running multiple monitors on Quadro FX 1500M with forceWare version 84.64, Windows XP Service Pack 2. The fact that it is happening repeatably, with the same documents accross multiple platforms -one 32, one 64 bit installation, one XP and one Vista, with different graphics cards/drivers (I don't know what the vista one is right now)- leads me to think that it is not a hardware issue though.

 

[4zengineering]

I've had this problem as well. I highly doubt its a video card/driver issue since I've had it as well on multiple workstations using approved card/driver combos. My VAR seems clueless about the whole thing and it's upsetting as heck that when you use the software how Solidworks would want you to (using model dims), that it would blow up in your face like that.

I can say that the problem is definitely intermittent, it seems to happen on the drawing that's the most important at the time, and if my memory serves me correctly, once I let my drawing get raped by the annotations update 1 time, it doesn't seem to want to do it again.

 

[Keith1029]

That seemed to be the same for me when I go from sheet to sheet but I have tried now fixing saving closing and re-opening the same drawing (always the most important) and that cursed A.U. blows out the same dimensions every time. My work around is now using reference dimensions instead of model dimensions, but that is no solution.