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Drawing missing from model view

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:54:08 GMT

Drawing is missing from model view, but is showing in Layout view(s)

I have no idea how to make it visible in model view again. i loaded up AutoCad this morning and it is not showing.

I have zoomed in and out as far as i can. I have checked layers color (lines are white and red not black).

No idea, Any help greatly appreciated.

Regards

Re: Drawing missing from model view

rkmcswain — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:08:52 GMT

Can you attach the drawing here?

Is the geometry in paper space only perhaps?

If not, then can you access the geometry through the viewport?

If so, what is it?

Re: Drawing missing from model view

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:20:59 GMT

Hi kudo,

It was working yesterday when i shut it down, then this morning it wasn't. I have been working on this for a few days now, and opened up perfectly each time.

How do i see view port?

Re: Drawing missing from model view

rkmcswain — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:32:02 GMT

Can you attach the drawing file please, otherwise we are just guessing.

Since you asked how do you see the viewport, do you perhaps need a tutorial on model space and paper space (layout)?

See this:

Re: Drawing missing from model view

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:59:17 GMT

Hi Rkmcswain

Have viewed the video, and cant see the fix, It was displaying yesterday, but not today.

I attach the dwg file milton-inside-rdc.dwg

Regards

Re: Drawing missing from model view

rkmcswain — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:11:37 GMT

I clicked on the Model tab, then double-clicked the mouse wheel (which performs a ZOOM>Extents), and the geometry appears.

See below.

Drawing saved as shown above, is attached.

Re: Drawing missing from model view

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:30:33 GMT

I spent hours trying to fix it, Can you tell me what caused it? what did i do?

Re: Drawing missing from model view

rkmcswain — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:07:33 GMT

When you're in model space, think of yourself outdoors looking at the sky.

If you are looking for the moon, but you're not looking in the part of the sky where the moon is, you won't see it.

So, when you switch to Model Space, the VIEW was not oriented to where you could see the geometry.

A Zoom Extents readjusts the view so that all geometry is visible.

But, this can be tricky. If you have some entities near the coordinates 0,0, and you have some entities near the coordinates X=100,000,000 & Y=100,000,000 - then a Zoom Extents will show all of that, and the result will look like an empty screen because those two locations are so far apart.

Another way to handle this is to create named views (Run the VIEW command), then you can always return to any named view at any time, regardless of changes to the drawing.