gl rendering and runaway objects

[station]

Had an interesting experience where viewports went blank with an open gl render (fine in hidden and rendered). Also was not able to work in both wireframe or open gl on a 3d model in layers. Previous version of the file was fine and subsequent changes were model changes (walls symbols moved, etc.).

Did the usual, reboots, changing vw open gl preferences, etc. - then given the revisions I started looking for orphan objects which seems to be a source of lot of vw problems...and that was it - a symbol that decided to run away from home and was located a few miles away. Safe and sound but definitely screwed up my working day - about on par with my dog.

 

So the question is why do symbols run away and could be a question for a software psychologist - do they not feel part of the software family, alienated kind of thing? What can be done to make them behave?

[Pat Stanford]

I have not seen a lot of objects running away in VW documents. But I have seen a lot of objects far from the origin in imported files. Especially DWG.

 

Any chance those objects are coming from a broken family and running away from their VW Foster family?  ;-)