Sections and Elevations are messed up

[Anonymous]

After working on a plan for months without problems, all of a sudden my elevation and building section views are screwed up.


When I open the section or elevation, the view is missing a large portion of the line work (walls, roofs, notes, dims, etc)


I double check the plan to make sure nothing was deleted and everything is there, its just not showing up in the elevation or section view.

I've updated my graphics card. My patches are current and I've even tried to cut a new section/elevation to see if there was a problem with the specific original elev/ection and i get the same problem.

Any idea what I can do here? Thsi is setting me back weeks or months

[Anonymous]

Aussie wrote:
As a test cut and paste one of the errant walls - sometimes a corruption can set in. Select the dimensions as well if you want to keep them too.

What do you mean? Do you mean just cut it and paste it so the exact same wall goes in the exact same place?

The problem is that its inconsistent. By that I mean that its not always the same wall that is missing in the section or elevation. I can rebuild the section several time and the rendered view changes each time, sometimes picking up more lines and deleting others and sometimes just adding more line detail (by line detail, I mean the rendered linewaork automatically generated by the related element)

[Anonymous]

Ted wrote:
Check to see if you have duplicate parts. Duplicate parts in same spot do not show in section/elevation and any associated dimensions that were added in section/elevation window to parts prior to duplication disappear too.

I checked duplicates and the only things that came up was a couple of labels on one duplicate object that was in working areas completely away from the floor plan where the problem is arising.

I'm beginning to think that my file has somehow been corrupted.

Here's is how I finally got my elevations, building sections and wall sections to finally show correctly with all related element line work and notes, labels and dimensions I added in the section/elevation view:

1. I turned off all the layers except for two (Walls (Exterior) & Walls (Interior)

2. Then I opened the section to see if it would display everything properly (which it did).

3. I slowly turned on each layer that pertained to that layer combination one at a time, rebuilding the section/elevation each and every time I turned on another layer (My hope was that my manually doing this I would discover which layer the problem was associated with. The thing is, the error never appeared by turning the layers on one at a time and I ultimately restored my intended views through this long and tedious process. I was able to make the error reappear by skipping the process of turning on each layer one at a time and just turning them all on. When I turned on all the layers and opened the section/elevation, the messed up view appeared again)

[Anonymous]

Aussie wrote:
As a test cut and paste one of the errant walls - sometimes a corruption can set in. Select the dimensions as well if you want to keep them too.

[Anonymous]

Aussie wrote:
As a test cut and paste one of the errant walls - sometimes a corruption can set in. Select the dimensions as well if you want to keep them too.