In the end I wrote a topic about the issue, and the work around. You can read quickly through the early part, and get to where I describe the work around:
I did end up finding that post and will give it a try on the next file it happens too. My colleague had already gone through and fixed everything by the time i came across it lol. Our problem doesn’t appear to be unique to section planes though. It also happens to site plans, elevation views etc where no section planes are active.
Ok this particular file was having issues with the elevation scenes but is now just having issue with “Scene 17”. I can the ruby script in the file and it totally destroyed all of the scenes.
For reference scene 17 should be showing the section cut but its camera has shifted to show a different elevation, fixing the camera angle works but then it goes back after saving.
An important part of the instructions is to turn off the Model Info/Animation/Enable scene transitions option first. Then the script shouldn’t destroy the scenes.
I’m not sure what scene 17 is supposed to look like. It seems to be showing something, and isn’t blank.
So this particular model had blank scenes including scene 17, they were all fixed but scene 17 will not behave properly now. No matter which scene you go from, scene 17 simply turns on the section cut but leaves it set to the view of which ever scene was before it. Try switching from say the main floor scene to scene 17 and then from an elevation then back to scene 17 and you should see what im talking about.
good call on the transitions, I will try turning those off first before running the script.
We don’t generally use that method for updating scenes, rather using the update option in the top left corner of the scenes menu that prompts you with which properties to save.
According to @sWilliams 's screenshot, Scene 17 is not set to save the camera view. The popup window you see when updating scenes will not override the scene settings that tell which properties are set to save with the scene. For other scenes than some “working” ones, you would normally check all the boxes.
Did some playing around with it. That certainly interesting how that works…
I cant think of a scenario where I wouldn’t want these items to save in any particular scene. In any case that appears to have resolved the issues with this particular scene. Thanks @sWilliams
@colin I will run the script on the next file that gives us issues and see if that helps, if not I will send you the file before all of the scenes get repaired manually
There are many time saving things you can do in the scene manager with those properties.
Say you have 3 levels of a home and want all three scenes aligned perfectly. Select the floor scene you have the position finalized. In the scene manager select the other scenes you want to match using shift or Ctrl. Then deselect camera position, then immediately reselect. Do not hit update. Now all three scenes are perfectly aligned. You can do the same for all of the parameters.