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Parts turning black in display??

Ever have this happen. I bring assemblies home from work and load them into my computer. Sometimes the whole assembly will turn black. Othertimes it will be all but one part is black. I cant go in and change colors or anything. I will bring them back to work the next day and they will be fine. Only happens in 2005 SP.1 with NvidiaQuatro500FX....this is the third or fourth time its happened. Not like the video card is bad. Just very random. Very hard to work on a black assembly :( Jake Barron

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Jake
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try removing material.

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matt

Hello Jake- Recently, my FX500 went bad after 9 months. Best Regards, Devon T. Sowell

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Devon T. Sowell

I had a similar thing happen to me. A glass part that was transparent showed as black. It was fine (transparent) when looking at the part, it was fine when inserted in a new assembly. I guess it just did this with the original

2004 assembly that was converted to 2005. I'm running 2005 0.1 and an Oxygen card. Didn't have time to worry about it so I just recreated the assembly and all was well. Bob

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Bob

I'd say you've used Real View graphics at work and due to that, the assembly turns black at your home. In SW2004 Real View graphichs requires, if i remember correctly, SP3 to get it working.

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toni.korhonen

I've seen this as well--it's usually a part I've made transparent. I'm using a Quadro FX500. It sticks with the file--if I bring it home, it shows that way at home. Messing with (or removing) the material is the only way I've been able to fix it.

I'm experiencing other graphics weirdness as well--some parts become striped, and one faded to black from one side to the other.

Hmm...

Brian

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Brian Mears

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