Can't select objects that disappear randomly with eevee
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System Information
Operating system: Darwin-17.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 OpenGL Engine NVIDIA Corporation 4.1 NVIDIA-10.33.0 387.10.10.10.40.131

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.81 (sub 16), branch: master, commit date: 2019-11-15 16:32, hash: rBeba4a4bd73ba
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Short description of error
When I open a project and I select an object, it becomes transparent with only a sort of silhouette...

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
It happens randomly and forces me to relaunch blender. But when I select the object it disappears again and I can't do anything but select Cycles renderer to make my object appear but I can't select it.
I then collapse the 3d window that shows the problem and I create a new one. After clicking on several objects, Ax2 to select all, unselect all, select my object, it becomes selectable and I can work...

PS : The material preview is also extremely slow when I tweak nodes (connections) on a material, it's almost unusable and I must use Cycles. I'm missing the old blender internal, sometimes.

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Mentioned In: T71147: 2.81 & 2.82 Eevee stops rendering in Rendered and Look Dev modes in viewports (macOS)
Mentioned Here: T71147: 2.81 & 2.82 Eevee stops rendering in Rendered and Look Dev modes in viewports (macOS)
T68826: eevee not showing multi material object properly when blend is loaded until mesh is updated

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In fact when I go back to cycles, the object is appearing but I can't select it either. However I can select lights etc...

Jerr Soundripper (soundripper) updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 19 2019, 3:19 PM

Jerr Soundripper (soundripper) renamed this task from Can't select objects that disappear randomly with eve to Can't select objects that disappear randomly with eevee.Nov 19 2019, 3:28 PM

Jerr Soundripper (soundripper) updated the task description. (Show Details)

Mind sharing your blendfile?

I can reproduce this issue - objects sometimes disappear. Closing and re-opening fixes it. Also on macOS FWIW.

Open the blend file, select the Area.001 light. Delete it. Select the Plane.001 object (in the viewport, not in the Outliner) = it disappears.

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Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) raised the priority of this task from 30 to 80.Nov 19 2019, 4:10 PM

FWIW (didn't know that abbreviation ;)
If you do the same thing : Open the blend file, select the Area.001 light (in the outliner). Delete it. Select the Plane.001 object in the Outliner = it doesn't disappear !
Perhaps it can help you great and courageous devs.