SolidEdge Hidden Edge Style

[cosmarchy]

Hi,

I'm having trouble with my SolidEdge Hidden Edge Style since re-installing. I am using v18 and have service pack 12.03 which is the the latest I have access to.

I have a drawing view in a draft and I click it's properties to hide the hidden lines. The trouble is that when I click ok on the dialog box nothing happens. When I return to the properties box, the Hidden Edge check box is still ticked even though I cleared it last time.

I've done it this way for years without any problems however now there seems to be a subtle difference. When I click the tickbox once, the tick goes to a shaded square. Click a second time and it clears - it has never done this before. If the checkbox is ticked and you click, it clears. If it is clear and you click it ticks; never this intermediate step.

The net result is that I cannot hide any hidden detail

I have installed this on countless machines over the years and never had this issue once.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

 

[KENAT]

What operating system is it installed on?

We are still runing V19 but on newer windows 7 PC's. There are a number of small glitches.

For similar to you I found having the actual body selected seemed to fix it.

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[cosmarchy]

I'm also using Windows 7 (x64). There are a few peculiarities but the biggest one of all is that on different Windows 7 machines they have different peculiarities

Having the body selected is quite strange....but it does appear to work!!

Odd, but if that is what I need to do then so beit.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've only tried it on one drawing so I'll give it a go as I need to throughout the day. No reason why it shouldn't work though.

 

[beachcomber]

V18 was never designed to run on Windows 7 - that could be the problem.
I think the first version certified for W7 was ST3.
You should really be running it on XP Pro.

bc.
Core i5-3570 @3.4GHz , 8GB RAM
Quadro FX4600. W7 Pro 64-bit.

 

[Kenny_G]

Lots of 2D GDI issues on Win 7 when running an older unsupported version. I would second Beachcomber's recommendation or add another of upgrading to the latest version of Solid Edge.

Ken G.

http://grundey.blogspot.com

Have you checked out the Solid Edge Community site?

http://community.plm.automation.siemens.com/t5/Solid-Edge/ct-p/solid-edge