Cross hatch rectangles over components in Altium Viewer

[jskoog]

I gave a client Altium Designer Summer 09 Viewer to check out a design. When zooming in on a PCB layout, cross hatch rectangles appear around the components. This makes it hard to view the traces. How do we get rid of these boxes.

[free_electron]

You have mechanical 1 on and what you are seeing is the part body .

O-L turn off mechanical 1 and or 2

[jskoog]

Turning off the mechanical layers didn't help.
This shows the purple mechanical layers on. But when I zoom in further, the larger white cross hatch rectangles appear around the components. The yellow top overlay component outlines also appear, but when I turn off the top overlay, the white cross hatch boxes stay.

[DerekG]

You have mechanical 1 on and what you are seeing is the part body .
O-L turn off mechanical 1 and or 2

Actually just pressing the shortcut key "L" works

Turning off the mechanical layers didn't help.

Have a look at the actual component in the component library itself. It might be a keepout area. If so, save the component with a new name, modify it (ie remove the keepout area), then use your new version.

You can also turn off the "Keep-Out Layer". Just press "L" to bring up the layer menu.

ADDED: The mechanical Layer is just an indicator for you. The Keep-Out Layer prevents the auto-router from using that area.

[jskoog]

These rectangles are not keep-out regions and are not specific to a component. All components get the box when you zoom in. I've attached pictures of the display just before they appear, and after zooming in one step.

[ajb]

Are there any active filters? 

[free_electron]

Playing with variants ?

[JDubU]

What happens if you click on the "Clear" button in the lower right corner of the window?