What causes this...?

[AlexLachance]

This issue happens every now and then, never really figured out why it happens. I thought maybe someone here would have an idea. Note, I've seen this on SolidWorks 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2019 and 2023. The missing versions are versions I haven't worked with, but I probably would have ran into it with other versions.


We do sections in our drawings, sometimes they are "partial"(not in SolidWorks term). Every now and then, the section view's bounding box becomes the size of the entire model, even though the section is only supposed to display a partial view of the model. Most of the time, it shows up correctly. When it doesn't, I can't figure for the life of me what is causing it and how to resolve it.

Proper view bounding box:

Problematic view bounding box

[Glenn Schroeder]

Howdy Alex,

I don't know what causes it, but I think I can help fix it when it happens. Have you tried Cropping the Section View?

[AlexLachance]

Howdy Alex,

I don't know what causes it, but I think I can help fix it when it happens. Have you tried Cropping the Section View?

Yeah it's generally what I do for the quick-fix on projects, but it would be fun to know the trigger of it, so that if the project turns out to be used for a P&G that the next user doesn't have to figure out why his view isn't showing up(because of the crop)

[AlexB]

I've seen this before too. The only thing I see in the KB is a bug report for 2023 sp3. So I'm assuming it probably hasn't been resolved.

[AlexLachance]

I've seen it be triggered by sketches being shown rather then hidden but it is not the case actually

[Frederick_Law]

Try move the section line.
Try dimension the section line sketch so it move with the model.

[AlexLachance]

Try move the section line.
Try dimension the section line sketch so it move with the model.

Tried both, no effect unfortunately.

[Frederick_Law]

What happen if you create another section view?

[DanPihlaja]

Every once in a while, CTRL Q works.

[AlexLachance]

What happen if you create another section view?

Same thing Lower level of assembly does not have the issue, upper level of the assembly doesn't either.

[SPerman]

It just happened to me when creating a detail view.

[AlexLachance]

It just happened to me when creating a detail view.

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Seeing your detail view, it seems you have some surfacic stuff? If so, that is most likely the cause

[SPerman]

Nope. The part is extrudes, extrude cuts and holes.

[AlexLachance]

Nope. The part is extrudes, extrude cuts and holes.

Have you tried having a contour around the view to see how it would react as such?

[SPerman]

It isn't causing me any problems. I just mentioned it because it happened a day after you started this discussion.

[Damo]

I too have experienced this glitch.
I also use the crop view command as a quick-fix.
I find some view (drawing glitch) issues are resolved by opening the model with the contect menu, doing Ctrl-Q, returning to the drawing and refresh.
Not always tho.
I have also known this to occur when I have used "Insert Part into Part", or other direct editing tools.
(Like the model keeps reference of where something was before Move/Copy/Delete Body/Face com,mands.. Meh.)
Just a normal Tuesday with Solidworks.

[Ömür Tokman]

This issue happens every now and then

I've experienced this many times, to be honest I couldn't find the reason either, sometimes it was fixed when I deleted the view and re-created it, sometimes I saw that it was fixed when I turned the pc on and off even though I didn't fix it at all. For a long time, all I've done at SW's strange errors is laugh and .......