Frame Generator not generating

Frame Generator not generating

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Frame Generator not generating

benjaminlCXXVQ
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I've got some support legs that I had made with frame generator that I need to change. They are square tube, and the shop ordered a different wall thickness, I'm trying to change my design to match. I can select the different tubes and select edit with frame generator, the window comes up and everything looks all fine. I can select the different size that I want, when I hit OK a window pops up saying "A frame member change in size will produce a replacement file on disk. The original saved frame member will be retained. Continue?" This seems all fine and dandy to me, I hit yes. then nothing happens. The little window asking me to confirm goes away, and Inventor window becomes frozen. Any clicking anywhere within the Inventor window does nothing but give an audible bong noise. The frame generator window stays up. Inventor won't do anything. It doesn't seem like inventor is locked up like it's just thinking too hard. It never tells me the program is not responding, and it can all be canceled by hitting the escape key.

 

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In getting frustrated with it, I've even tried just deleting the frame and regenerating the whole thing. This ends with the same result. It will show the transparent frames it want's to generate and all the tools work, but once I hit OK, nothing happens and any clicking anywhere just bong's at me. I have even tried doing a brand new assembly with a new sketch (in a part, inserted in the assembly.) Again, all the frame generator tools seem to work, but it won't generate anything when you hit ok, it just freezes.

 

I have tried rebooting, in case something was locked up in the cache. The closest similar issue I saw here in the forums, the guy said that others in his office were having issues with frame generator, and somehow updating the driver for their 3Dconnexion space mice worked. I've given that a try, as well as double checking that I've got all available updates for Inventor.

 

Any ideas anyone?

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CCarreiras
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Hi!

 

Are you working with two (or more) monitors? or have you been connected to a monitor recently?

 

Sometimes it happens to me: when using frame generator, sometimes it opens a window outside of my monitor (as if the windows stays in the phantom monitor, that is no longer connected)....and without click ok in that window, the tool doesn't do the operation.

 

To bring the window to a visible part of the monitor again click: CTRL ALT+ SpaceBar + M at the same time and the click in any direction arrow key. Then just drag the mouse pointer to the center of your monitor.

 

Other workflows: change temporarily the resolution of the monitor to expect the window to appear somewhere.

 

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benjaminlCXXVQ
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This computer has always had dual screens, but I've never had this problem before.

 

The CTRL+SPACE+M and an arrow key didn't do anything for me... BUT, I changed the display settings to duplicate displays instead of extending the display, and that worked, the naming window was just barely peeking out from off the edge of my screen.

 

Thank You!

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Well... i believe that this will happen to you some more times in the future so, i suggest you "train" the "CTRL ALT+ space bar +M" trick, instead of the annoyance of keep changing the resolution.

It's really easy (and this will work with any window).

 

Do this:

1 - open the "New file Window"

2- Imagine that it is outside of the view range (like in the phantom monitor) and click these 3 keys at the same time:

ALT     SpaceBar     M

3- you can see your cursor turning in a cross (in the second 9+-)

CCarreiras_0-1726024362288.pngNow you "caught" the window, wherever it are.

4-press any direction arrow key (up, down, left, rigth... doesnt matter which one), your cursor is now normal again (second 15)

5- Don't move the mouse, just press the LeftMouseButton. Keep pressing and drag the window until you can see it in the monitor.

 

and that's it....

 

Check the video

 

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Just to clarify, this can happen when you disconnect your pc from a monitor, and it happens mainly with the frame generator windows, but... can also happens with some other windows, so it's handy to now now to use this trick.

 

Ussually when you reconect the extra monitor the issue no longer exists.

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I think what @CCarreiras is referring to is Alt-space (window menu shortcut) followed by M (to invoke the Move command).  This is a Windows shortcut, so it works with any application window that happens to be active.  Inventor seems to not keep good control of its dialog boxes when screen resolutions change, so it's needed more often in those situations.


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CCarreiras
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@SBix26 , you're right!!  it's ALT + Space Bar + M... The video is correct, but i my mind i exchanged the CTRL and ALT, my bad.

Sorry,  @benjaminlCXXVQ , i will fix my posts .

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