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Disappearing curves

pimm
14-Alexandrite

Disappearing curves

I ran into a very perplexing issue.

I have an assembly in which I've exported a top and bottom die.

Each die has curves that need exported as an IGES or STEP (along with the rest of the geometry).

The bottom die exported fine, but the top die did not export any curves.

I made the discovery that the die itself was responsible.  Any time a curve was generated it would automatically hide the curve.  As soon as I made a sketch, copy geom curve insertion or curve projection  it would end up hidden.  I could unhide these entities in layers but they would not export out.

 

In the end I placed a curve on a plane in the assembly itself and it did export properly.

 

My thought is that there is a settings issue, but I have no idea why or what it might be. 

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John.Pryal
12-Amethyst
(To:pimm)

Hello, i wonder if the config option 'autohide_external_sketch' is causing your problem. Try setting this option to 'no', it may help.

 

Best regards

 

John

pimm
14-Alexandrite
(To:John.Pryal)

John,

 

The strange thing is that the opposite die had no curve visibility issues.

 

This job has an opposite hand, and I had no visibility issues in that assembly or it's export.

 

The assembly level itself had no curve visibility issues.

 

If this was a config option it would seem that the visibility issue would be universal to all models.

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