Help meeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

[doobes]

Argh,

For reference I'm using Swx 2023 sp5.0.

On the odd occasion I've done "something" (no idea what) to SolidWorks that will for all intents and purposes, lock it up.

It's still "functional", meaning I've got mouse control and such, but virtually everything is greyed out. Here ya go:

What did I do, and how do I get out of this situation without killing SolidWorks from Task Manager and losing my work?

Thank you!

[josh]

I've most often seen this when there's a dialog box open somewhere off-screen mid-command. Does "esc" or "enter" or anything get you back? Can you unplug a monitor or two to force things onto one screen?

[matt]

Maybe you can use the Windows display settings to turn off a monitor.

[doobes]

Maybe you can use the Windows display settings to turn off a monitor.

Oooh!

That's a good idea.

I'll try that next time.

Cheers

[mp3-250]

I have seen it happen in a few occasions, but it was not worth the trouble to replicate as restarting sw was quicker and nothing valuable was lost.

Sometimesit is a single part, sometimes a component of an assy, probably when you enter a sketch and switch to another component without exiting. it does not happen always...

[doobes]

I have seen it happen in a few occasions, but it was not worth the trouble to replicate as restarting sw was quicker and nothing valuable was lost.

Sometimesit is a single part, sometimes a component of an assy, probably when you enter a sketch and switch to another component without exiting. it does not happen always...

Yep.

No rhyme or reason. I have had it happen when I hadn't saved in a while. Shame on me.....