Me and several coworkers are facing the same issue with our layouts.
Sometimes, for some random reason, when saving and re-opening a layout, one component has changed its geometry for another one present in the layout.
It is extremey frustrating to have to re-import the model and replace it, it’s pretty tidious.
I tried to check the “save component original path” and “include components” in the backstage, but it happened again, and I dont really know what those checkboxes do.
Could you please share if any of you faced the same issue ? And if you fixed it ?
“save component original path” is just for debugging purposes. It does not really affect loading or saving.
“include components” is to include the components into the layout, instead of just reference them by vcid. This is useful when sharing layout with others that do not have those components in their eCats.
If you encounter such case where a geometry is replaced with another after reopening, I’d suggest you to send that layout to the support along with the scenario description for further investigation.
I noticed same issue - my theory is that the reason is the same name in Node Feature tree inside two and more components. Typically name “Geometry” - which is automatically assign after split operation. When this name of feature (name Geometry) is used inside two components, I think after closing and reopen Visual Components are these geometries sometimes replaced by one of them.
I can not to prove it, but from time when i every feature named “Geometry” rename into different unique name i have not faced this issue any more.