What is this "yellow black stripe pad" grid thing? And how can I get rid of it?

[jsanders]

Hello,

A client has Navisworks Manage 2020 and when he opens the file, he sees this bizarre grid surrounded by yellow & black stripes. It looks like a NASA Rocket Launch Pad or something. I downloaded the exact same file and I don't have this problem.

How can I "deactivate it" ? Very bizarre indeed.

[PatrickDavis20]

Never seen that before. Maybe it is coming from the original authoring package and you are missing the object enablers that would display it. Total guess. I would check the Scene Statistics to see if you are missing an object enabler.

[DarrenP]

that looks to be from the factory design ultilities

do you have this installed?

[jsanders]

I'm not aware of this... "factory design utilities". Looks like a standalone software from Autodesk ? Why would it be inteferring with Navisworks ?

[jsanders]

I've never seen it either. I can only see it when I connect via Teamviewer on the screen of the client who has Navisworks managed 2020 installed on this machine. Why does his navisworks display this grid and my navisworks (or any of my colleagues) doesn't ? So weird. 

[DarrenP]

its this: http://help.autodesk.com/view/FDU/2021/ENU/?guid=FDU_About_Factory_Design_Utilities_html

do you see a factory tab in your Navisworks ribbon?

[jsanders]

I see, so which button do you press to deactivate this grid ? 

https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/FDU/images/nwf_ribbon.png

[DarrenP]

look through settings: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/factory-design-utilities/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhe...

[jsanders]

Ok soI suppose there is a "visibility" button that will make this dämn grid disappear. Thanks !

[Hunteil]

I have FDU (Factory Design Utilities) installed too. Just came back to a iPart parent and found this too (yellow and black caution tape border). The parent (master file) and members were all released. I'm not sure how this showed up either. I have FDU installed but I haven't touched it yet in leu of actual training. (would love to) Anyways this shows up in Inventor. I don't see a way to turn it off. Factory Floor Settings don't show up. Just Factory Options. Any clue?
(Inventor 2022.4.1, FDU 2022.1)

What I saw when I opened a Master iPart file that was releasedonly buttons on ribbon

^all the buttons I see on the ribbon.

Cross Ref post from Inventor Forum: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/yellow-amp-black-caution-tape-border-in-my-model/m-p/1...

[jnewon]

@jsanders 

Hey, Try this...

Click the Nman icon   in the upper left of the screen and select options.

Then select Factory options and Grid floor. These should change the visibility of your Factory floor.

[jnewon]

sorry didn't realize how old this post was. LOL

[thomas_gaertnerYMRLT]

Anyhow, it helped me just today as I couldn´t find a solution. Many thanks!