Fetaures (WorkPlanes) remain (after pattern erased?)

[oransen]

I can't explain this situation. I have a pattern of axes, holes, workplanes. While making the pattern I made various mistakes and erased the pattern and started from scratch a few times.

The pattern includes a hole, a point, a horizontal workplane and a vertical workplane.

It looks to me that at one point the horizontal work planes of the pattern did not get erased, they exist in the part, but cannot be found or erased.

It is as if Inventor knows they have been erased but keeps their visualization, a ghost of the original.

The planes are visible and can be resized but cannot be erased, cannot be used as a base for a sketch, and cannot be found in the browser.

Or maybe its finally happened and I'm going gah gah.

See attached screenshots, Work Plane80 is a good example. Inventor PRO 2017

Inventor PRO Ghosts2.jpgGhosts3.jpgGhosts4.jpgGhosts1.jpg

[salariua]

@oransen would you be able to share a model with us ?

upload the ipt please.

[oransen]

Could I send it to you directly, I'd rather not share it publicly...

[salariua]

Hi Owen

if you click on my name, there is a "send private message". It works just like this forum posting (attachments and format), but it's a private message.

[salariua]

@oransen 

I think your email notifications about private message go to your spam.

I did send you a message and a dropbox link. Can you confirm receiving them?

[salariua]

@oransen

Got the file. I believe you found a bug...

The three phantom planes are "Work Plane 80", "Work Plane 81", "Work Plane 82". 

I would have expected this to happen in Assembly environment where we have the option to make pattern elements Independent but not in part environment.

Did you suppress pattern elements, then tried to delete the pattern or something similar?

I will call @johnsonshiue (Autodesk) and give him the link to the file via email. 

Do you remember the order of operations to create these planes? need to try and replicate this on our end.

If you do remember the steps then please upload an older version and tell us how to replicate it.

[salariua]

@oransen

as a temporary solution you can turn visibility OFF and they will disappear but this seems to be more than a graphics glitch.

[oransen]

>>  Did you suppress pattern elements, then tried to delete the pattern or something similar?

I can't even remember what I had for breakfast.

No, sorry, the problem is that the sequence changes according to the inputs a user gives to a program. So it would be next to impossible for me to recreate it 😞

I think I deleted the pattern and then recreated it with the same name but different features. I think.

I'll let you know if it happens again.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Guys,

Adrian forwarded the file to me. There is indeed corruption. Not only the three workplanes Adrian mentioned are corrupted, but also there are three corrupted workpoints. These work features are categorized as orphan features (no parent and no child). They are just there. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to delete these work features other than purging the parameters. If you know how to reproduce the corruption, it will be very helpful to finding a fix.

Many thanks!

[salariua]

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@johnsonshiue wrote:

If you know how to reproduce the corruption, it will be very helpful to finding a fix.

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10 geniuses can't fix a mad man's work.

😄

[oransen]

>> 10 geniuses cannot fix a madman's work

Oh, don't be so hard on Autodesk's programmers!

😉

[oransen]

"Orphan features". That console's me, you have a name for the bug so I'm not the first one!

If it ever happens again I'll try to track it down, but the user uses the program when I'm not actually there, so I can't promise anything...