Getting question marks on planes in Solidworks

[solidmess]

I opened up several parts in Solidworks and all my planes appear like this:

Right now I'm trying to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. Does anyone know what happened?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Is there any common feature in those parts? Were they imported, moved, names changed, revised, or ???

Can the planes be renamed in the Feature Manager?

Has the font been changed in the templates used for those parts?

Which OS, SW version and SP?

 

[solidmess]

- There are no common features in those parts. Nothing was moved, changed revised, etc; I just opened up the part and my planes were all messed up.

- The planes do have names in the Feature Manager, but those names aren't showing up on the sketch/model field

- I haven't changed the font in the templates, however I will check.

- I am using Solidworks 2011, SP0 on Windows 7.

I've also re-installed Solidworks twice already and it still does this.

 

[solidmess]

Okay I haven't touched the default 'part' template.

 

[TheTick]

Question mark usually means an in-context (assembly-level) reference that is lost. Do the question marks look like "-->?"

Sorry, can't read PNG format on my mobi.

 

[solidmess]

TheTick,

I know what you're referring to (it appears in Feature Manager), but no it's not that; it is an individual part. It's actually a massive question mark sitting in the middle of the sketch field.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

If you expand the ref plane the question mark is attached to, is it located where the title of the plane would normally be?

 

[TheTick]

Finally got to a workstation and looked at pic. Never seen that before.

Are you sure it is part of the plane? Is it just an annotation?

 

[KevinDeSmet]

Open all of your features that have a + next to them, there might be an annotation buried underneath one of them.

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[solidmess]

So I just opened up Solidworks and those question marks on gone now. I don't know what I did, but some how it fixed itself.

That was really bizarre.