AC doors and windows disappearing

[rm]

Using AC 8.1 doors or windows has been very frustrating. When adjusting them, stretching, changing parameters in plan, I find them disappearing on screen even in plan after rebuilding or refreshing the screen. Yet they show up in 3D just fine.

My work-a-round ( which is a complete waste of time ) is that I have to close the file, then restart the file, and then the parts show up as expected again.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Is this a know bug?

Is there an updated AC 8.1 Library that I should be using?

BTW, I'm using AC 8.1 on OSX 10.3.3 on a G4 with 1.5 megs of RAM.

Thanks,
Robert Mariani

[Dave Jochum]

rm wrote:
Using AC 8.1 doors or windows has been very frustrating. When adjusting them, stretching, changing parameters in plan, I find them disappearing on screen even in plan after rebuilding or refreshing the screen. Yet they show up in 3D just fine.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Yes--though the window doesn't completely disappear in plan--just various elements, like sills, or when viewing actual line weights, parts will show incorrectly. It's most definitely a bug, and one I had not encountered before 8.1. In fact, I first noticed it just a few days ago.

[rm]

Thanks Dave for confirming this. If you are experiencing the same problem, I would encourage you to let Tech Support know about it. When I talked to them about it today, they indicated that had not seen this before.

I wonder if this is unique to the MAC side of the AC.


Regards,
Architects Design Forum, Ltd.


Robert Mariani

[Dave Jochum]

rm wrote:
I wonder if this is unique to the MAC side of the AC.

Wouldn't be the first time...

[Djordje]

rm wrote:
Thanks Dave for confirming this. If you are experiencing the same problem, I would encourage you to let Tech Support know about it. When I talked to them about it today, they indicated that had not seen this before.

Are you using SEOs on the walls where the doors and windows misbehave?

[Dave Jochum]

Djordje wrote:

rm wrote:
Thanks Dave for confirming this. If you are experiencing the same problem, I would encourage you to let Tech Support know about it. When I talked to them about it today, they indicated that had not seen this before.

Are you using SEOs on the walls where the doors and windows misbehave?

Not in the most recent occurrence. I'll have to go back and check the previous one. Is that a relationship you've found to exist?

[Dave Jochum]

Djordje wrote:
Are you using SEOs on the walls where the doors and windows misbehave?

I've checked, and no SEOs are involved.

[rm]

Are you using SEOs on the walls where the doors and windows misbehave?

SEO? I'm afraid I have not seen SEO before, what do you mean.

RM

[Dave Jochum]

rm wrote:
SEO? I'm afraid I have not seen SEO before, what do you mean.

Solid Element Operations. Djordje was suggesting that the problem might be tied to its use, but not the case in my experience.

[rm]

Thank you Dave on the SEO explanation. In my case, I am NOT using SEO's either.......must be a bug unique to the MAC side.

Hopefully, GS will look into this.

RM