Blank Drawing Screen 7

[JohnCarrick]

Having used DraftSight sucessfully. For no apparent reason, when I now open an existing drawing, or start a new drawing, there are no entities visible on the screen? I can, using window or crossing select entities, as the grips appear! If I do a print preview, it is all there!. But looking at the screen in 'drawing mode' there is nothing to be seen!?!

 

[magicjohnson32]

I've "solved" my problem with switching to another computer - my coworker never uses DraftSight and our computers are identical. I'm going to carefully observe DraftSight on this computer so I'll know when and what happened when the error appears again (hopefully that will never happen). Thanks to everybody who contribute here with useful advices.

 

[mark6145]

I've reinstalled DS version 8.4.274. Problem has not recurred since (10 days). However, there are two small dots left in the positions if the entities that became unmanageable which cannot be erased. They seem to be a single pixel remaining the same size on the screen whatever the zoom. Have had the same problem in the past with AutoCad 2008.

 

[dwarrenabaxis]

Updating graphics card driver fixed this issue for me. Thanks LightHi and contactspec.

Some background:
I used Draftsight in Windows XP...worked great. I recently upgraded to Windows 7, no computer hardware changes. I reinstalled Draftsight and got the same issues described in this thread, with a twist. I had embedded a Visio file in my .DWG file, which worked fine before updating to Windows 7. I thought it was an issue with the embedded Visio file, but then I noticed that creating a new drawing from scratch also showed that any drawing would not display correctly. I updated the graphics card driver and now I can see my drawings, new and old and with embedded Visio files.

 

[mark6145]

All

It seems that everyone has now reolved the problem by either changing version of DS, changing graphics card or computer. My version 8.4.274 has now been working fine for 40 days so - fingers crossed!

Thanks for all the help from everyone, specially STKRAPP.

Signing of now

Mark6145