Abnormal program behavior

[Anonymous]

Beginning this week views in drawings (Inventor dwg) are taking a long time to generate. I get green corners around the views, and a pair of green arrows in the browser tree. This happens when placing views, making changes to views. Something as simple as turning on tangent lines causes this and it takes 10 seconds to become responsive.

*These files are in Vault. Therefore, as I work on them they are on my local C:\, not on some far away server.

[cbenner]

Has anything in your environment changed recently, like right before this started happening?  New computer, software upgrade, Windows updates, new programs loaded and running in the background sucking up resources?  Did you switch music players 😉  (j/k)

Do you have all the latest updates loaded on Inventor? Is this a bigger assembly than you are used to?

[Cadmanto]

Have you restarted your machine recently?

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[Anonymous]

The "green" corners are a signifier that the view is in raster mode and Inventor is generating the projected edges, etc. in the background so that you can continue to work without having to wait for the graphics to catch up....at least that's kinda how it's described by AutoDesk for 2016 (yes I see you're on 2013).

But if this is happening and "locking up" or "stalling" your system, sounds to me like there's other issues at hand.

Was there an update to the graphics card or a setting changed in Inventor?

I'd look under the Application Options and see what your settings are for items such as "View Preview Display", is "Memory Saving Mode" selected?

How about the Display settings?

[Anonymous]

ChrisB, 

Nope, it is not a music player. I listen to music via a mp3 player. 😛

I have SP2 Update 6. 

The top level assembly for this project has 91 parts. Our largest project so far has been over 12k parts.

[Anonymous]

Cadmanto,

Nope. I restart the machine at the end of each weekday. I even run Disk Cleanup every Friday.

[Anonymous]

Jim,

Under Application Options>Drawing>View Preview Display has Show Preview As set to All Components. The Section View Preview as Uncut box next to that pull-down is not checked.

Even though I restart every weeknight, I chose to restart. I also went and made sure to check Memory Saving Mode.

Everything now appears to be fine. 

[Anonymous]

Of course I spoke too soon. It is back. A coworker sent me this.

I've had these issues many times. It's the graphics card. I talked to IT about it and it has to do with Autodesk Inventors Service packs for our graphics card drivers. Unfortunately it seems they have a glitch in the driver for our graphics card and our version of Inventor. The VAR told me that there was really nothing they or Autodesk could do, because they are focused only on fixing current or future versions of Inventor.

[blair]

Since Autodesk switched from OpenGL to D3D back in release 11 (not IV2011) the need for graphics card certification discontinued. The graphics card drivers you have listed are very old Nvidia drivers.

Have IT download and install the latest Nvidia graphics card Performance drivers for your K4000 card. The driver version should be 353.06 that was released 2015.6.1 as listed on the Nvidia website.

[Anonymous]

Hi Cadlad

Just reading your post here and was intregued as I have a very simular (almost Identical) Machine and set up to yours and as of this week I am having issues nad crashes that up until now were not present. see thread here;

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-general-discussion/inventor-crashes-when-idle/m-p/5686052#M55...

I have a Dell T3610, Xeon 3.7, 16MB EEC Ram, Nvidia K4000 Graphics Card (Latest Driver), 2 x 256 SSD Samsung,  

Did you by any chance do a windows update and install patches and fixes etc?

After some trial and error and a discussion with an Autodesk Employee Yijiang.Cai I un-installed all the windows updates that downloaded during my last update and since then i have not had the issue. Well almost, my windows was setup to auto download and install updates, so when i shut down my machine last night and booted up this morning, they were all back reinstalled and once again had the very same issue. (Not the same as yours, my inventor crashed when idle, read thread)

Went throught the same process of uninstalling and have not had an issue in 4 hours. Im not saying it is definately fixed but it is better.

Trt uninstalling windows updates form when you noticed the issue. See does that help.

Have fun.