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ST2 Traditional Assembly - Parts go missing / wrong location

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Alz23

Mechanical
Jun 11, 2012
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Hi,

I'm having a major problem with a few of our assemblies.
Basically a few of our parts within the assembly appear to visually lose their relationships and be positioned in an incorrect location.I.e. Parts are placed at a central location within the assembly. However when you try to select the part (within the display window) you are unable to click or select the part. If you click on the part in the pathfinder and view each relationship you can see the part highlighted in the correct position. All parts have no failed relationships and the remaining parts are all constrained and defined.

In addition, whilst in the process of rotating the assembly additional parts are visually moved to the same central location, however once you stop rotating the assembly the additional part locates back to the correct location.(Problem above still persist though)

We have tried deleting the files and re-associating the part, however that only works sometimes and somewhat a band-aid solution.

We have tried the following options without any change:

Tools - Update all Links

Tools - Errors

Tools - Update Structure

Saving file

Restart/shut down computer.

Tried different computers.

Any help would be appreciated


Hardware
SolidEdge ST2 102.00.090.05 x64
Windows XP
SP2
 
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Graphics card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 512mb.
I've since done a search and seems like others have had a similar problem in regards to the lag in the refresh rate, but I still dont understand why
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Graphics card should be Ok as its a proper CAD card - these problems are sometimes linked to using a gaming card.
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Problem solved (for the time being)
Open up the part that has the problem.
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Updated all links and it should work.

 
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