Solidworks Routing, wire definitions disappearing!??

[G2daG]

I'm using the routing tool in SW2008 for creating some electrical harnesses. I made a few without too many issues, but this latest one is driving me crazy. The harness has a total of six wires (6 splines drawn, using Auto Route), but only 3 of them have wire definitions assigned. When I go to "Edit Wires", I can add definitions to the other 3 wires, but as soon as I exit out the wire definitions disappear. Furthermore, if I try to delete the original 3 wires' definitions, they reappear as soon as I exit out. If I delete the *fromToList.xml file, it reappears with the same data no matter what I do.

Any ideas?? Are my wire properties being driven from another source? The one thing that I did differently with this harness is that I created a drawing of it when only 3 of the 6 wires were defined, could that have something to do with it?

Any advice would me much appreciated, my VAR is not very helpful.

Gabe

 

[G2daG]

Restarting my computer fixed the problem - if there's something I can do to prevent it happening again I'm all ears!

 

[AnnaWood]

Restart your computer more often. I restart my computer every night. It cures many ills.....

Anna Wood
Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 Gb RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gb SSD, Dell 3008WFP 30" Monitor
SW2010 SP2.1, Windows 7 x64

http://www.solidmuse.com

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[JMirisola]

Only every night, Anna? I restart my computer at least once per day.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
Design Manager/Senior Designer
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[AnnaWood]

Yes, before I go home at night I restart my computer. Usually never need to restart during the day.

Anna Wood
Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 Gb RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gb SSD, Dell 3008WFP 30" Monitor
SW2010 SP2.1, Windows 7 x64

http://www.solidmuse.com

http://www.phxswug.com

 

[G2daG]

I guess I should stop being lazy - I usually just lock out my computer during the week, restart on weekends.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I always start with a fresh reboot every morning, and make a pot of coffee while I'm waiting ... running an old P4 ... and then we're both ready to face the day.