I finally figured out how to put an end to a problem that dogged me for months and was intermittent.

Go to:

SFXPrefs.ini

Scroll down to [DEFeatureFilter]

You can comment out each line one at a time, but, going so will collapse the (in my case, 9; I used ;) lines to one row

Alternatively, using a test copy, just delete the section to confirm that SOMEthing there in that section is the culprit, and restore one by one.


I looked in the Prefs section under File, Preferences...

Nothing in there gave a clue nor had any effect I could guess at.

I spent maybe two hours duplicating, subdividing, and testing folders filled with copies of the files under AppData/Local/Punch!/SharkCAD.

I almost did a full. But, something said delete the .ini files and see what comes back plain and default.


Then something said back up the .ini files run them with one at a time an absence. Took almost two hours before I narrowed down the file, then randomly snipped until the selected geometry resumed appearing.



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