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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. 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.

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?

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.

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.

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mike miller wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:02 am 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

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

Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 12:00 pm 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.