topic Re: Off-White colored block on drawings? in Inventor Forum

Off-White colored block on drawings?

tdswanson — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:55:44 GMT

Does anyone have this happen to them on their drawings? The back ground is white space and there's this off-white colored block the views. It doesn't seem to appear in the PDF's, but it shows in the Preview and it comes out on paper prints. Version is 2023, but I've seen this sporadically for years.

Re: Off-White colored block on drawings?

jtylerbc — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:37:27 GMT

I don't think I've seen that. But I've seen something that is sort of an inverse of it - portions of a shaded view (or occasionally an entire view) changing to the background color instead of the correct shaded colors. Might be related, might not.

Usually I can move the view slightly on the sheet and it will refresh properly. Sometimes it's necessary to turn shading off and back on for the view.

Re: Off-White colored block on drawings?

johnsonshiue — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:44:34 GMT

Hi! This usually means some sort of corruption. Try this. Copy the view from this sheet to another. Or, copy the sheet from this drawing to a brand new drawing. Does the block go away?

Many thanks!

Re: Off-White colored block on drawings?

tdswanson — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:57:17 GMT

For this view alone, I turned of shading and did a print preview and the cream box was gone.

Turned shading back on and did a print preview. Cream box was back.

Re: Off-White colored block on drawings?

tdswanson — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:59:09 GMT

I'm not sure how to COPY a view somewhere else. I do actually have two sheets in this drawing. I tried MOVING this view from Sheet 1 to Sheet 2 and the cream box followed to the other sheet. Moved back from Sheet 2 to Sheet 1 and the box followed.

Started a new drawing and copied the entire sheet from the original drawing to the new drawing and the cream box followed along right into the new drawing.

Re: Off-White colored block on drawings?

johnsonshiue — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:30:24 GMT

Hi! Please share the files in zip with me directly johnson.shiue@autodesk.com. I would like to understand the corrupted view port issue better.

Many thanks!

Re: Off-White colored block on drawings?

jtylerbc — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:43:09 GMT

Have you already tried Suppressing and Unsuppressing the view? I've had some stubborn graphical glitches that I've resolved that way. I don't see where that's been mentioned in the thread so far, but I don't know what you've already tried on your own.

Other than that, I'd suggest getting your files to Johnson to see if he can do anything with them.

Re: Off-White colored block on drawings?

tdswanson — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:03:51 GMT

@johnsonshiue Just sent you an email with a link to the Pack and Go export for this drawing.

Re: Off-White colored block on drawings?

tdswanson — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:05:10 GMT

@jtylerbc Hadn't thought of this, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I tried it like this:

Confirm Issue

Suppress View

Save

Open Unsuppress View

Save

Preview

Defect still present