Motion Study cutting off some of my Parts during movement

[heritagesurf7]

I am trying to make a Solidworks animation (2010, Win7), and every time I try to have my model explode, it crops some of my parts as they explode outward. Instead of exploding off the screen, it looks like they go behind an invisible curtain. I attached a picture. It only happens to those parts in the picture (the arms). It should look like the one arm in the top row to the left. All the other parts are fine, though. Any ideas? This isn't a graphics card issue is it?

 

[heritagesurf7]

No one has any idea? It is now doing it in a second, completely new assembly, with a new animation. Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[heritagesurf7]

Update/bump: I just tried a new motion study on a different computer (SW2010, Win7) and it is continuing to cut off the pieces at both ends of the big fixture. However, instead of disappearing like on the other computer, SW converts the parts to wireframe as they cross the "invisible plane". There is no "hide" or "wireframe" command active in my motion study.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Do you have Perspective View mode enabled?

 

[heritagesurf7]

Thanks cor, I just tried turning Perspective mode on. The parts still get cut off, but now (if you look at the first picture I posted), the two left posts in the back now explode properly, instead of just the one. The rest still disappear behind that line. I have no idea why that would change it, but at least it's some progress...

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

What graphics card are you using?

 

[heritagesurf7]

GeForce 9300GE. I figured it must be a graphics issue but I wanted to be sure. I know it's not supported by SW. However, the interesting thing is I turned off all of the on-screen menus and it started consistently rendering properly in one of the two videos.

 

[heritagesurf7]

[SOLVED] Hiding the menus worked with both... thanks for the help. Even though it's fixed, any explanation would be appreciated, unless it was just a glitch with SW or my graphics card.

 

[AnnaWood]

It your unsuppported graphics card. That why it is unsupported. It will not always play nicely with SW. It is not optimized to. Sometimes it will work, sometimes it will not.

You will just need to live with the limitations.

Cheers,

Anna Wood
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