F360 ate my design file

[fritter63]

Tried to revisit and old design after the update, and I find all sorts of problems with it. Mostly "missing" sketches on a couple of components. I get a little red triangle on the sketch, but message about what the issue is. If I try to edit the sketch, It's not visible. Is this recoverable?

I post it here for F360 examine and learn from. By the time you reply, I'll probably have just redone the entire thing.

[innovatenate]

I'm sorry to hear about this issue. Looking through the design, it looks like Sketch 2 in Top has no sketch entities in it. Is it possible that these were inadvertantly deleted before the last save? A good tip is to use the Compute All command before you save to make sure there's no errors in the timeline.  

To work around the issue, you could use the convert to DM feature (right click on the feature in the timeline) to convert the extrude and/or sketch features into a base feature. Although it looks like some of the joints may need to be repaired manually by editing each joint and selecting the source geometry.

If you open a previous version, is that sketch complete?

I hope this helps. 

Thanks,

[fritter63]

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@innovatenate wrote:

". Is it possible that these were inadvertantly deleted before the last save? "

No.

"If you open a previous version, is that sketch complete?"

Well, I'm sure it will be as it was last time I worked on it. What would that prove?

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[innovatenate]

If you open previous versions of the design and something happens to that same sketch every time, it might help to understand at which version the behavior change and compare what happened in the timelines.