Issue with Rendered IDW views

[MikeDiyer]

Inventor 2014 - Having an issue with a rendered detail view. I've created a custom style library changing layer linetypes, annotations, etc. and thinking it may be the issue...

I've created a rendered view, then create a rendered detail view from that. All is well until I save, get out of it and back in. At that point, the rendered detail view is just gray, no detail, no color... See atttached.

Is there a specific layer linetype scale which may effect this?

Thanks, Mike.

[cwhetten]

I tested this and didn't see the problem.  Maybe a graphics hardware / driver issue?  What graphics card do you have, and do you have the latest driver from the manufacturer (NVIDIA or AMD)?

Are you using a custom texture file, or is that one that came with Inventor?  I wonder if there are some appearance library hijinks going on.

Cameron Whetten
Inventor 2014

[jtylerbc]

Are the main and detail views all referencing the same view representation?

[MikeDiyer]

Yeah, I think it's an Appearance issue. The rendered part is basically a board with a sketch set off the face with another extrusion (representing MDF with laminate facing). I changed the second extrusion, the lamiante, to have the appearance of the customer selected color, while leaving the main body looking like MDF. I somehow think this caused conflicts, as when I went in and cleared the appearance overide, the rendering showed up.

Note: this didn't resolve the problem, as when I changed it back to the selected laminate color, again turned to gray on the drawing.... I'll just have to work around it.

Thanks for the help.

[cwhetten]

Can you post your part?  It would help us diagnose the problem much easier.

It might be a simple fix, or a workflow issue (meaning, if you do it a slightly different way, the problem goes away).  I guess my point is, you might not need a workaround, but we don't have enough info on the problem to say for sure.

Cameron Whetten
Inventor 2014