When switched from 2d wireframe to any other style half my drawing disappears

[sizzil34]

So my draft is basically a box with a sliding lid. Both pieces are their own 3d solids. I designed the box before the sliding lid, and now when I select any angle on the viewcube it aligns it to the lid and basically forgets about the box. I cant explode my box to edit it either. Pretty much the only way cad will recognize my box's existance is in 2d wireframe. Any help is appriciated! Thanks

[nestly2]

Welcome to the Autodesk forums.

Can you attach the drawing here, and also clarify which version of AutoCAD you're using?

[sizzil34]

Happily. And I'm on AutoCAD 2015

[nestly2]

Unfortunately, I don't have any positive results with your drawing.  The first thing I noticed opening the drawing is that the UCS icon is faded and not it's normal color.

SELECT > ALL finds 4 objects which are your "Lid" and two other Solids and one Surface.  A sort of "ghost" image of them can be seen by using MOVE or SCALE command while they're still selected, but LIST command indicates that they don't have any size/shape.

I also tried to export/import as DFX without any improvement.  Did anything unusual happen (Crash/Unexpected shutdown etc) between the time the drawing was working and not working?

[sizzil34]

No. I'm not positive when this happened but im 90% sure it was when I cleaned up the remaining lines and used UNION to combine the 3d solids. Still fairly new to 3d modeling so I'm trying to get the hang of it all

[sizzil34]

And the ucs icon has been that color throughout

[nestly2 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the additional info.  I can't say I've seen anything quite like that before.  My guess is the Solids, or the drawing got corrupted somehow.

Here's what I see in your drawing.  A dimmed UCS icon, and some "ghost" lines when moving/scaling after SELECT > All

If you're on Subscription, you can submit a support request and it might help them fix whatever caused the problem.

[sizzil34]

thank you so much for the help. Ill probably just resign it, luckily its not super complicated. thanks again!