assembly drawing views aren't updating correctly, LoD confusion

Anonymous · ‎06-23-2015

IV 2015 Windows 7

I have a surface model from a vendor of a window. I've thickened some faces to creat a solid body. If I turn off the surface body visibility and create a part drawing, the drawing works as expected. The solid mobdy I created is shown, and no surface body/hidden lines ae visible.

I have put this part into an iassembly and created an assembly drawing. The preview shows the window as a solid part, but when I place the view, it shows like a surface file with hidden lines. The drawing view is set to "hidden line removed" and "shaded" is off. If I change LoD, or turn shaded on, the window still is just broken line art, like it's a surface file, with no color.

I've also deleted the iassembly table to create a regular assembly, and created an idw and gotten the same results.

I've attached a screen shot of an idw. The left view is the part in the assembly, the the right is just the part. Both views have the same settings.

Sometimes, If I drop a new view, or save the drawing, and reopen, I get the usual error of view needs to be updated, regardless of whether or not I just regenereated the target file. If I then go to regenerate the file, I'm told I can't because the LoD is being edited elsewhere. (I am the only one working on this project.) save/closing the idw makes this error go away.

This has been happening for a few days now, with several reboots mixed in.

Any suggestions/tips/etc appreciated...

Anonymous · ‎06-25-2015

This post has been escalated, and I have received an email from autodesk. However, there's no case number, so when I try to respond, I get an autoreply saying "Oops — we didn’t receive your message..."

Anonymous · ‎06-25-2015

Josef, I've treid a new email, and forwarding older ones. I copied the case # from your email...

Can you send me an email with the right phrase in the subject?

johnsonshiue · ‎06-26-2015

Hi! It will help the discussion tremendously if you attach the example here or send it to me. The confusion in LOD Drawing workflow is that the user tries to use LOD as a way to configure assembly. This is a misunderstanding. LOD is a memory management tool helping to reduce memory footprint of loading document. It should not alter how an assembly is designed (BOM, geometry, and properties).

I suspect there is a pending update in a LOD state. You can try closing the drawing and open the assembly. Activate LOD:Master and update. Repeat the process for each custom LOD. Save along the way and in the end. After that, open the drawing. Is it in sync now?

If it still does not work, please send the files to me directly (johnson.shiue@autodesk.com).

Thanks!

Johnson Shiue (johnson.shiue@autodesk.com)
Software Test Engineer

Anonymous · ‎06-26-2015

Alas, the file is huge and proprietary. I cannot share it.

I use the table of the iassembly to configure the assembly. I've been using the LoD to control load time/what shows up in certain drawing views.

I attached a screen shot in the original post showing what was happening at the assembly level versus the part level. I changed to view to every LoD in the assembly view and had no change in how the window showed up in the drawing. I also created new idws, purged the iassembly child folder, deleted generated files and regenerated, updated video driver, and I can't remember what else. 😕