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SWx Why do Point clouds disappear?

Solidworks 2008 with a decent enough system and headroom. Over time of loading and working with parts, assemblies, etc. the main assembly consisting of three somewhat large point clouds decides to not show the clouds. I have to reboot for them to re-appear. Any ideas or work arounds?

Also - since I save the assembly it also saves the part cloud files and then they get corrupted if they are not visible on the screen. Is there a way to make the parts read only and have SWx not give you a nag screen about them each time you then try to save the entire assembly?

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Tank 'm o'Niel
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I'm not running 2008 and don't use point clouds, but it sounds like you are running into memory problems. How much RAM do you have? You might need some more if you have less than 4 GB. You also might need to set the 3 GB switch. Still, with all the above, you might have to reboot periodically to keep SW from getting its knickers in a twist.

I'm not sure about 2008, but in 2007, go to Tools/Options/System Options/External References and checck "Don't prompt to save read-only referenced documents (discard changes)".

Jerry Steiger

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Jerry Steiger

Perfect thank you mate!

I need to read up on the 3 GB switch part though...thanks for the tip

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Tank 'm o'Niel

What Jerry said applies here, that is make the documents that you don't want to change read only and then set SW not to save read only documents. .

What format are the point clouds in? I am assuming it is imported data. In that case one would think that that sort of data should be static and not changeable. So if it is changing there may be some kind of bug.

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Cool - you pbring in the clouds under their native format *(forget what that is) then save as a part file. This is really a drag because there are 3 part clouds and you never know which one is going to flake out.

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Tank 'm o'Niel

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