Block Manager not showing up, its tab displays "[…] Container is empty"

[omichalek]

I found one old reference to the problem, apparently it hasn’t been resolved.

Rhino 8 Feature: Block Manager Panel

This is happening to me as well. All I get is a ‘Container is empty’ message.

“‘Right Container’ Container is empty” is shown inside the block manager tab (on the right).

At first it happened only in some Rhino windows (files), I thought maybe high number of blocks in my document was to blame. This is a new file with only a single (top level) linked block pasted and the bug showed up already as well.

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi -

@omichalek

I found one old reference to the problem, apparently it hasn’t been resolved.

The person in the thread that you refer to fixed this by doing a “clean install” of Rhino.

Rhino 8 Feature: Block Manager Panel

In detail. -uninstalled Rhino 8 -deleteted all the files in %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0 -Restart -downloaded the Rhino 8 WIP from the website and installed. I have a feeling it was a plug-in or some other old preference that was causing a conflict. I’ll have reinstall the plugins one by one and see if any cause the problem again.

@omichalek

This is a new file with only a single (top level) linked block pasted and the bug showed up already as well.

What happens when you disable all 3^rd party plug-ins, run WindowLayout and restore the default layout?
-wim

[omichalek]

The behaviour is very unpredictable, just after posting this, I opened the same file again in read-only mode by accident, and then a larger working file as well. Block manager suddenly worked in both windows. After closing all Rhino instances and reopening something again, it did not work again.

AFAIK I have only two plugins: VisualARQ 3 and this one from Epic Games (installed only today, while the bug started earlier), I can check it tomorrow.

My install is only about three weeks old!