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ARCHICAD 20: Open GL 3D blank

Anonymous
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Help...........

I've seen dozen of threads like this but none of the solutions has worked for me.
All my 2D views look fine.
Everytime I go to 3D it shows up blank. If I marquee everything on my model and hit F5, it shows fine. As soon as I hit F5 again, everything is blank.

I've tried this file on multiple machines and same issue.

I can't afford to lose a whole's day work for a back up.

Any tips would be much appreciated.

Ben
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Anonymous
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I'm not sure if this is helpful - but this Report tab showed up

C:\Program Files\GRAPHISOFT\ARCHICAD 20\ARCHICAD.exe
Unused in temporary folder : 75137.7 MB
Number of processor cores : 8
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Document name : 16.17 CD 170720
Processed : 34 walls 172 objects 0 columns 0 beams
1 slabs 0 meshes 0 roofs 0 morphs
Start time : 21-Jul-17 7:55:29 PM
End time : 21-Jul-17 7:55:29 PM
Elapsed time : 0 seconds
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Projection : Perspective
Eye position : -58.5346 78.9267 13.5421
Direction : 0.701242 -0.709003 -0.0746595
Distance : 20.7846 Angle : 60
Start time : 21-Jul-17 7:55:34 PM
End time : 21-Jul-17 7:55:34 PM
Elapsed time : 0 seconds
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Number of processor cores : 8
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Document name : 16.17 CD 170720
Processed : 0 walls 3 objects 0 columns 0 beams
Start time : 21-Jul-17 7:55:35 PM
End time : 21-Jul-17 7:55:35 PM
Elapsed time : 0 seconds
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Normal vector and edge 413 is not perpendicular in pgon 188 in elem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.
Normal vector and edge 350 is not perpendicular in pgon 203 in elem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.
Normal vector and edge 273 is not perpendicular in pgon 122 in elem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.
Projection : Perspective
Eye position : -58.5346 78.9267 13.5421
Direction : 0.701242 -0.709003 -0.0746595
Distance : 20.7846 Angle : 60
Start time : 21-Jul-17 7:55:35 PM
End time : 21-Jul-17 7:55:35 PM
Elapsed time : 0 seconds
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Anonymous
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OK...crisis averted.

Turns out there was gsm object in my embedded library that was causing this.
I deleted this object and viola everything back to normal.

Weird.
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