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Solids Drawing Disappear and Cannot be Selected

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:12:58 GMT

Hello All,

I'm trying to create a basic model for a building slab/floor plan/footing. I've intended to create the whole thing in solids to facilitiate easily taking many section shots and flat shots.

However, not long after adding the rebar solids to my drawing, I started experiencing an issue where much of the drawing will not display, and cannot be selected. If I attempt to use RECOVERALL, the correct number of objects are enumerated, based on previous work. I believe the first symptoms of the problem were section planes not capturing all objects that passed through them.

I've attached two screenshots: a preview thumbnail where the solids are visible, and a 3D Hidden shot showing the absence of many objects.

A version of the drawing from after the error started is attached. Backups are old enough in progresss to make it more effective to start over, in case some error of geometry that I have missed is causing the issue.

Computer Specifications of Workstation:

Windows 7 Enterprise SP1

Processor: Core i7-4800MQ CPU @ 2.70 GHz

16.0 GB RAM

Re: Solids Drawing Disappear and Cannot be Selected

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:50:29 GMT

Can anyone help me with this problem? I've already recreated the work, but I want figure what went wrong to try and avoid it recurring in the future.

Re: Solids Drawing Disappear and Cannot be Selected

JDMather — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 21:24:31 GMT

Do you have solidhist turned on or off?

Re: Solids Drawing Disappear and Cannot be Selected

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:03:42 GMT

It is off. I should also mention that I have toggled Hardware Acceleration but haven't seen any changes.

Re: Solids Drawing Disappear and Cannot be Selected

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 17:43:45 GMT

I've got a similar issue with solids dissapearing randomly (AutoCAD 2016). In the instances where the issues have come up and I've been able to recover a previous version of the drawing, I've noticed when running LIST on the dissapearing 3d solid, the bounding box has 0 for all coordinates of the box. The 3d solid is still visible at this point in model space but basically has no values. If the solid is moved or modified, it will disappear completely and will not return even running UNDO.

I've lost work over the last several days. I saved before going home, open the drawing in the morning and items are either completely gone, or will be soon as soon as I try to edit it.

Extremely frustating. I'm hoping that someone knows what is going on and we can figure this out. I'm up against a deadline, have very little time to allocate to this project and keep loosing work.

Re: Solids Drawing Disappear and Cannot be Selected

Anonymous — Wed, 11 May 2016 20:37:55 GMT

unbelieveable what a broken product this bug makes AutoCAD

Re: Solids Drawing Disappear and Cannot be Selected

JDMather — Wed, 11 May 2016 20:58:03 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

unbelieveable what a broken product this bug makes AutoCAD

Can you attach a file that exhibits this behavior?
What value do you have for solidhist?