Missing lines in IDW (show hidden edges not available)

[John_Col]

Hi,

I had search on the forum before posting this issue.

At the begenning I was thinking that it was just to RMB and select show hidden edged in my drawing but in fact not.

The model look like this :

And in the drawing I have some missing lines :

I tried to display the missing part in a separate drawing and it's OK.

I use Inventor 2011.

Is there any patch which could solve this issue?

Many thanks.

[jletcher]

Did you try with tangent edges?

[John_Col]

Hi,

Yes, this have no effects.

[jletcher]

How about Interference Edges option?

[Anonymous]

Do you have all service packs applied?

What is your graphics card and driver?

[kenjacques8585]

Hi,

Is the hardware that is shown as missing made of resolved solids or surfaces? This looks like what happens when you try to use IGES files in Inventor.

[jletcher]

now that would be a good catch if you are right.. and I believe you are.. Be nice if we was told all information...

[John_Col]

In our company we are using good quality hardware like NVidia Quadro FX graphics cards with the latest updated drivers. We are working with windows 7 64-bit edition.

I have experienced this error on different PCs here so for me it's not a hardware configuration. I had tested on several PC this morning and I confirm that it's not a hardware problem.

Regarding the Inventor information:

Inventor release 2011 SP2 build 309 64-bits edition.

I apologise to have forget those important details at the beginning 🙂

I had already tried the interference edge option and nothing changes.

Many thanks for your support.

[jletcher]

Are the parts missing a surface?

[jozef.dubaj]

Hi John,

could you share/upload the particular dataset so we can investigate?

Thanks,

Jozef

[jletcher]

Or just post the parts that are not showing in the IDW..

[John_Col]

Dear all,

Thanks for the answers.

Please see the attached zip file.

http://dl.free.fr/cd6TqC2cI

[jletcher]

Well downloaded your files I have everything showing in 2012 parts look good I don't see the parts as an issue the was one bad import but besides that all is good. I will look more into it..

[jletcher]

You asked if there was a patch do you have any of the service patches loaded if not you may start there.

[John_Col]

Hi,

Good to know...

This meen there is probably no problem with the file but much more with my set up OR Inventor 2011.

I will investigate if there is any available patch to solve this issue.

Thanks,

[jletcher]

Again do you have any service patches loaded now?

[John_Col]

Are you talking about service packs?

What do you meen service patch?

Thanks

[jletcher]

Yes the same pack patch tomato tamoto lol

Its call a patch in other software I use and forgot Autodesk calls theirs pack..

So do you?

[John_Col]

We have Service pack 2 build 309 installed.

[John_Col]

Your help was great jletcher. You gave me the right way to continue to investigate.

I guess a patch should exist to correct this bug for inventor 2011.

Maybe I should try to get in contact with an Autodesk customer service or customer support.

One Kudos for you 😄