Parts disappearing when selecting "Fit"? (NX5)

[tdp240]

I've been working on a part in NX5 (5.0.4.1), and just today after using the "Fit" command, the part (all solids, datums, sketches, etc) disappeared. The part navigator is intact, and when I hover over where the part was, the status bar indicates the model is still there (it shows the feature I'm hovering over), but nothing is visible. All of my layers are visible, so I know that's not an issue.

I was able to fool around with the show/hide functions and somehow got it back (even though I never technically "hid" it), but now the model isn't showing up in drawing views. All layers on visible and nothing is hid, is my part file corrupt or something?

 

[hudson888]

If it is an assembly the there can occasionally be some confusion over whether the solid is hidden or the component especially when either or both are available for selection. Check using the ANT that nothing is hidden i.e. grayed out in the assembly. Other that that Show All should display everything.

I can't guarantee it isn't some other form of filter that is affecting your drawing to do with layers or the contents of reference sets. There just isn't any reference to those in your question.

Best Regards

Hudson

www.jamb.com.au

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[tdp240]

Hudson, it's not an assembly, and it's a part file that I've had the drawing completed for a while. I was just making a revision to the file when this happened, and when I switched to drafting, the views that were once there were empty.

I selected "Fit" via the right-click menu, and I did it very quickly and hit save before I realized I lost the display.

In the "Displayed Part" tab of the Properties window, it shows Display Scale = 0.000. Can I manually change this somewhere?

 

[tdp240]

I think I fixed the problem, although I'm not sure how it happened. Somehow a Datum Axis I had created was way out in space, so when I selected "Fit", it wasn't that everything disappeared, it was that it zoomed so far out to show the "wild" datum axis that the part was so small it wasn't visible. Likewise, in drafting, the view was centered between the part and the runaway axis, so it didn't fit on my sheet anymore.

I fixed this problem hitting "Fix", then randomly selecting areas of the screen until the status bar showed "1 item selected". This item was the datum axis, which was then highlighted in the part navigator. After deleting this axis (and fixing the one sketch that depended on it), everything seems back to "normal". Whew.

 

[Xwheelguy]

The axis might have resized itself during a display update or while updating the entire model. More than likely, you could have probably just resized the axis rather than deleting it and recreating a new one. But, you found what worked and that's what counts.

Tim Flater
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Enkei America, Inc.

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[hudson888]

Unless you have a saved view with clipping planes that are cutting off all or part of your model for some reason. It would be unusual though I guess not beyond the bounds of possibility.

Best Regards

Hudson

www.jamb.com.au

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