Drawing looks fine, but when previewed arcs are flipped!

Feb 21, 2005 1 Replies

Here is the problem, when editing a drawing for SW2005, everything looks fine, then when previewing it to print, a couple of the elbows outlining arcs in a front view are flipped or drawn from where it should start and end but the other way so instead of a 90 degree arc, its a 270 degree arc. Why is this, I am using sp0 and it's really annoying me as I have to save to dwg and then manually redraw these arcs. I should mention that I am using routing and these are 45 or 90 degree elbows, but not the SW 45 elbows, what I did what just take the



90 and added 30, 45, 60, & 90 configs. all to the same elbow so SW just used one, so I wouldn't get that prompt for a different elbow every time I used one. I am printing them High Quality and high quality views so that can't be the problem. Also, these are cropped views, and one of the stupid crop lines is showing up on the print, now why whould that be? I have other cropped views and no crop lines show up. ... (a minute later), OK, I just removed the crop and now the elbows preview and print fine, but I need this to be a croped view, why is the crop getting so screwed up? Is there known problems? I removed the crop and recropped it, its messed up the arcs again but only when previewed and printed, strange. HELP, thanks!

Figured out what was causing the arcs to flip, a bug of course, but here is how I created it. I have multiple routes using piping and instead of hiding the main route assemblies when creating configurations to detail, I hit all the individual parts by just drawing a box aroud them in the screen and clicked hide, that not only messed up my drawing border because even though I had hide the parts, solidworks was still drawing the drawing border around the WHOLE assembly instead of just what you were seeing, it also messed up some arcs on elbows, drawing them the wrong way when previewed to print. So I went back and unhide each part and just hid the assemblies, now the borders for drawings are right and the arcs for elbow print fine. TIP: Hide assemblies when you can, hiding just at the part level messes stuff up, like your drawing border and maybe lines when printed!

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