topic Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser in Inventor Forum

Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

Jklein9H5FY — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:54:43 GMT

I have a drawing that has the UPDATE symbol next to a sheet within the drawing package that I cannot clear. I have updated the assembly associated with that particular sheet as well as the sheet itself, but am unable to determine what is needing updated to remove the symbol.....

THANKS

Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

mluterman — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:41:28 GMT

did you try the Rebuild command on the model(s)?

Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

Jklein9H5FY — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:13:04 GMT

Tried MANAGE>REBUILD ALL in the model but still have the lightning bolt on the drawing sheet......

Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

jamie.moseley — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:28:58 GMT

I occasionally run into this issue as well. I believe it is associated with somehow damaged presentation files and their associated drawing views. It's not exactly a solution, but I found that the update symbol goes away only once I delete the presentation view.

Additionally, I've noticed that if I change the underlying presentation assembly, all presentation Snapshot Views except for the damaged views get the green refresh symbol except for those responsible for the issue in the drawing.

I hope whatever is causing this gets fixed soon.

Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

mluterman — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:43:39 GMT

If it is the solid red lightning bolt, and not the one with red/yellow, the last time this happened to me. I had to copy my drawing sheet onto/into a new drawing file (.dwg), and it went away. Nothing I could do would eliminate that solid red lightning bolt in the original .dwg file. (Then I deleted my original .dwg file and kept the new one).

Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

Jklein9H5FY — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:23:26 GMT

No, it's the yellow/orangeish lightning bolt....

Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

johnsonshiue — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:20:31 GMT

Hi! Maybe there is a corrupted view on the sheet. Please copy the sheet and paste it to itself or to a new drawing. Does the corrupted view reappear?

Many thanks!

Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

Jklein9H5FY — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:03:27 GMT

Well, that did the trick..... crazy how that solved the "problem"!!

THANKS 👍

Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

Matthew_Policelli — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:09:52 GMT

Hi, I am having this happen to me on two (out of four) sheets on a .dwg. I tried copying and pasting both sheets to a new drawing, and then back to the original drawing, and deleting the original sheets, but after saving the model again. This seemed to work, and the lightning bolt went away, but then I saved the model after making a change and we're back to those same two sheets being unable to clear the lightning bolt.

All four sheets have the same assembly model on them, they are just different Design Views of that model. I am running Inventor 2024.3

Any ideas why these are unable to clear the lightning bolt?

EDIT: I pasted all four sheets to a new .dwg and saved over the original .dwg, and that seems to have done the trick. I guess the .dwg was corrupted, not just the sheets.

Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

SEC_MECH — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 02:25:06 GMT

Can we please get solutions to problems, not just workarounds for everything.

Why do we need to google an alert message to find out what it means. There is no way to interrogate the lightning bolt symbol to find out what it is complaining about. Inventor is strewn with unnecessary dialogs. Why can't we have one for corrupt file notifications (So we don't just keep working on an already corrupt file). I lost 2 hours of work today when Inventor crashed. I too was ignoring the lightning bolt when the Update All Sheets failed to clear it. The corrupt file is likely the cause of the crash.

I cleared the lightning bolt using the workaround posted above (copy content to a new sheet) but it reappeared when I changed the description in the iProperties of one of the parts in my assembly. Inventor should be more robust.

Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

johnsonshiue — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:20:26 GMT

Hi! These behaviors are all defective. I wish they didn't exist. Unfortunately, the problem here is that not all defects are fixable (corruption without steps to reproduce and others). Workarounds just help get past the defective state for the time being. In this case, I suspect the issue is within the assembly model. The defective behavior manifests itself in the drawing. I suggest you open the assembly and go to Manage -> Rebuild All. We really need to see the exact workflow leading to the defective behavior. Do you know how to reproduce it consistently?

Many thanks!

Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

ismithZ29X6 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:56:01 GMT

I tried the work arounds listed here without success. I have a drawing of an iAssembly with 4 iparts in it (as well as 20 other parts). 2 of the 3 sheets had the orange bolt. I went to the Manage tab of the iAssembly and Rebuild all. Now all three sheets have the orange bolt. Have not had any crashes and I'd like to ignore them, but my OCD wont let me. 😉 I keep digging.

Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

johnsonshiue — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:01:59 GMT

Hi! Your issue may be different. I suspect it could be related to the iAssembly itself. Please share the files that exhibit the behavior here or send them in zip to me directly at johnson.shiue@autodesk.com. I would like to understand the behavior better.

Many thanks!

Re: Unable to clear UPDATE (lightning bolt) symbol from drawing browser

ismithZ29X6 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:36:47 GMT

Hello, Unfortunately I can't send the files. They are classified. I'm repeating the process with random parts to see if I can see the issue.