Yesterday I did a change to an assembly that took about five minutes and then spent the next THREE HOURS trying to get the thing to display properly on the drawing. Rebuilding takes about five minutes and it's SW 2007 SP3.1. Went something like this:
Changed the model rebuilt and saved. Opened the drawing it needed to rebuild (fair enough since I made changes to the model) and several views disappear. They're still listed over on the left and the notes are still there but no drawing in the view. Rebuild again. View comes back but then the partial section set to show only the cut bodies shows a big slice out of the assembly ie EVERYTHING that the section line cuts even though the check box is set correctly. Uncheck the box and recheck it to make sure it "took" (keep in mind anytime I so much as glance at the monitor the hourglass starts up for a minute or so) and then three of the six views go red. Rebuild. Detail view disappears. Get totally fed up, delete all the section and detail views and recreate them all. Print the drawing BEFORE I do anything else. Then Ctrl-S to save "needs to be rebuilt" rebuild, views disappear, finally say f--k it and move on to a different project. Thank god I didn't have to dimension anything as they were just to show configurations rather than dimension parts. Asked around the office and no Solidworks user has NOT experienced this at one time or another. Any ideas or do I just not have a full appreation of that "feature"?