Components greyed out despite assembly active

[daniel9CZJK]

I've run into an issue where components in an assembly are dimmes as if unselected even though the assembly they belong to is. Have tried several things from the user forums to no awail including restarting, updating, compute all etc.

Anyone else experienced this?

Thanks,

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[TheCADWhisperer]

Can you File>Export your *.f3d (or *.f3z) file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

Better yet -

Can you save as a different copy file and delete all but the dimmed components and Attach that file?

[daniel9CZJK]

Appreciate the offer but this particular design is not suitable for sharing.

Sorry, don't want to come off as full of myself.

Anyone know what's up with the Autodesk support, I keep getting error messages when I try to start a case.

[TheCADWhisperer]

@daniel9CZJK 

Can you hide (turn off visibility) everything except for the offending component.

Then we can concentrate on that component.

Post new screen shot.

We will next examine Opacity Control and other possible variables.

[daniel9CZJK]

Ok, appreciate the help!

It's actually several offending components.

Had a brief look at the opacity control and it seems none of the options are checked there.

Selecting 100% didn't do anything.

/D

[TheCADWhisperer · Accepted solution]

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@daniel9CZJK wrote:

It's actually several offending components.

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I think something is misunderstood in language translation.

I am interested in one, and only one, component that exhibits this behavior (preferably a non proprietary component, but we’ll assume everything is proprietary and can’t be shared).

If you turn off visibility of all but one, and only one, component that exhibits this behavior and attach the image - we can start do drill down on possible causes.

Solving for one component should solve for all components exhibiting this behavior.  I am sure I have seen it before, but I am looking for something to trigger a recollection of cause/solution.

Drag the Timeline back to just after huvuddel component.  What do you observe?

Here is a thought, if you create a new component, say a simple cylindrical washer, does the behavior present itself in the new component?

[HughesTooling]

What happens if you enable colour cycling (Ctrl+N)? Also have you checked opacity at all levels from the body up to the top component if a subassembly?

[daniel9CZJK]

Weirdest thing ever, I turned off visibility for all but Huvuddel, started moving back and fort in the timeline and when I came to a certain point it became it's normal solid self. Turning everything else on all components except both the schackle holders were dimmed out (previously only one was dimmed). At that point I moved to the absolut start of the timeline and then went right to the end which fixed that.

Isn't this what the compute all command is for?

In any case, for the time being everything seems grand and tomorrow I have some catching up to do.

Thanks for the suggestion!