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    Windows 7 Ultimate, Navisworks Manage 2011. 3 monitors, left to right 1, 2, and 3. I run NW on #2 in the middle.

    I had an NWF made up of several dwgs appended to an NWC from Revit. The screen started behaving oddly, and ultimately the mouse would disappear from the model portion of the Revit screen, and reappear in the upper left hand corner of monitor 1. I could sneak the mouse over on the windows bar at the bottom, but as soon as I moved it up to the model space it would vanish and reappear in the upper left of M1.

    So today I rebuilt the NWF with the NWC and dwgs and got them all aligned. Everything is trucking along and then I get a windows message that it's having trouble with the colors, and then it tells me it's reverting to windows classic. No problem, keep working, start running clashes. Now I'm getting intermittent issues with pan, zoom box, etc. I can zoom box but the program zooms on a completely different area of the model. Or I can use the scroll wheel to zoom when using the pan tool and get no effect, in or out. Control cube just vanished as I was typing this.

    Are these known issues with an easy fix? I have two projects with major deadlines on this and everything is hinging on the coordination, and I'm dead in the water right now.

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    Default Re: Having graphic and interface issues with NW2011

    When was the last time you updated video drivers?
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    Default Re: Having graphic and interface issues with NW2011

    My IT checked that and says they are all up to date.

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    Default Re: Having graphic and interface issues with NW2011

    Quote Originally Posted by rsloyer View Post
    My IT checked that and says they are all up to date.
    So the next question: 32- or 64-bit OS? It sounds like a memory issue since the graphics are degrading over a period of time.
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    Default Re: Having graphic and interface issues with NW2011

    Window 7 64 bit.

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    Ok, rather waiting for me to ask yet more questions about your setup, why don't you post your system specs?
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    Got this from IT.

    Core i7 920 (2.66 Ghz),
    12GB DDR3 triple-channel RAM,
    2 ATI FireGL V5600 Cards,
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

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    Default Re: Having graphic and interface issues with NW2011

    This issue is still recurring. Could it be that one of the various files from the trades are corrupted or otherwise causing the problem?

    Yesterday I began re-building the model, starting with a .wrl file from the steel sub, then adding a .dwg of the lights from the electrical sub, and a .dwg from the fire protection sub. This opened fine, and I got them all aligned. No problems. I then added the plumbing .dwg and all hell broke loose again.

    This morning I took the SLF (steel, lights, fire) model and added the duct .dwg and the mechanical pipe .dwg again seemingly without issue. I now have an SLFDM model. I added the plumbing .dwg again and again the display problems started.

    I am attaching a screen shot here of the plumbing model opened in CAD. I am NOT a CAD guy by any means, I'm a construction guy, so I don't know if there is some obvious reason I'm missing for the plumbing model corrupting everything. This is exactly how it looks when I open it.
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    Well, it sounds like you are narrowing it down. Is the pipe drawing done using CAD-Pipe? Has the original author of the DWG audited the drawing and provided an NWC?
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    Default Re: Having graphic and interface issues with NW2011

    Got them to send me an NWC, and the NWC is causing the exact same problem!

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