Opening Auto-recovered Files

Mar 24, 2005 5 Replies

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POH 21 years ago

I can not understand why the SolidWorks program doesn't automatically force a rebuild of any file which is opened by the auto-recover routine.

Even for an experienced user, the sight of an empty viewport is easily misinterpreted as showing a part which has failed to recover.

It was by accident long ago that I happened to try a CTRL-Q rebuild and was surprised to find that each lost file was then magically restored.

I can only imagine how many users have lost files after assuming that the auto-recovery operations failed and have then closed the "empty" windows.

SolidWorks should do users a favor and have the program automatically force a verification rebuild, even if the System Option for Performance is set for "Verification on rebuild" to be off by default.

Per O. Hoel

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P. 21 years ago

Per,

I agree. I've scratched a few hairs out of my head until I remembered this step. You'd be surprised how many people don't know about CTRL-Q.

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CS 21 years ago

I don't think I learned about CTRL-Q until talking to a VAR for tech support.

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P. 21 years ago

I think the curvy stuff gurus will tell you that without CTRL-Q and Verification on Rebuild there would be little hope of building complex geometry models that are robust.

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Jerry Steiger 21 years ago

I'm not a guru, but it seems to me that there is little hope of building complex geometry models that are robust even with ctrl-q and verification on rebuild.

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems "take the garbage out, dear"

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Paul Salvador 21 years ago

Yeah, unfortunately SW has feature geometry flakiness, not robustness.

The neccessity for ctrl-q and verification rebuild is real but yet totally useless, it just shows how poorly designed the program was/is/.. has been and continues to be.

A lot of wasted time spent because SW fails in the area of reference (internal and external) and feature reconstruction.

(worn out ctrl and q keys,.. the scars of a SW user..)

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