Odd happenings in Inventor

[Anonymous]

OK, just started noticing this issue this morning. I'm in an assembly and during the Constrain command, the "preview" option is not only deselected, but it's not even available:

Which of course doesn't show the action or the result of the applied constraint as you perfrom the command.

But not only do I no longer get the preview during the command, I don't get the result AFTER I apply the command (see above). No "boink" noise either (not a bad thing mind you).

But in order to see the result of the Constraint command now, I have to select a new command:

None of the parts are adaptive:

Inventor has been closed and restarted. Next step is to reboot (restarted computer this morning)

[mrattray]

Did you check that the Defer Update option is unchecked?

[mcgyvr]

and have you restarted both the computer and Inventor.. I've had similar and a restart cleared it right up.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Yep, defer update was not checked (it was one of the first things I looked at, guess I should have mentioned such).

A complete shutdown and restart cleared everything up now.

Wierd stuff on a Monday. I should have called in sick and stayed in bed.

It's only 9:30am and with about 2 hrs of sleep under my belt last night, it's feeling more like 11:00pm right now.

I'll try not to get too punchy here as the day goes on....although that might be a little entertaining....;)

[mrattray]

Everyday is a wierd Inventor day for me. Just now Inventor decided that it's not going to display certain parts when in their assemblies. Time to reboot for the third time today...

[-niels-]

The "(Shaft)" bit of the assembly's name isn't a Position is it?

Because i don't think you can constrain stuff when in a positional representation.