How to create a circular reference in a drawing view?

[AlexLachance]

I'm asking, because I got a pop-up message for the first time in 10 years on a drawing I'm regularly using telling me that I have a circular reference between Drawingview1 and Drawingview2.

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I've never seen this before, and never had this happen on that file which has existed for over 3 years. Plus, the only thing I did after opening the file was attempt to rebuild it.

[matt]

What kind of views? How are they aligned? Do you have sketch lines in either?

I've never heard of this either, but I can see how it can happen. If you have 1 aligned to 2 and then aligned 2 to 1. Could you maybe translate a little of the French, or show the drawing?

[AlexLachance]

The issue seemed to come from lost relations on sketch entities, whcih I find rather frickin odd.

It's a side view with a top view, the top view being projected from the side view.

I have sketch entities on the side view, these had lost their relations because of a change on a lower level. These lost relations were causing the issue, removing them and recreating them seems to have fixed it.

The french message says:
Some of the relations(mates) create a link to a ciecular reference between DrawingView1 and DrawingView2.

The sketch geometry might not be updated accordingly.
Delete the mates causing conflict.

This is the drawing in particular.

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[matt]

Thanks for the info. Very nice looking model, and interesting problem. Sounds like there was no circular relation at all, just broken relations. I could see maybe if there was a sketch line that referenced both views it might cause that issue, but ... Maybe it's just a wrong error message.

[mike miller]

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[AlexLachance]

Click the box that says "Don't show again". Then mark this answer as correct.

I crucify anyone who works with me and does this

[Frederick_Law]

It is easy to mix up view when sketching in drawing.
Move the view to see if sketch attach to correct view?

[AlexLachance]

It is easy to mix up view when sketching in drawing.
Move the view to see if sketch attach to correct view?

It's correctly attached, just SolidWorks being Solid Dumb.