Only model in the scope models list can be selected

You're losing me from the start.

Are you trying to place a subassy or assembling a sub while working in a higher level assy?

"find box"?

Grasping for a straw Tools > Options, Find, keyword SCOPE, Search Descriptions.

Come one guys, you know, the dialogue box that replaced query select... The dialogue box is called the Search Tool

I don't know what that means. Is there an Options pulldown?

Sorry I forgot to reply to this part...

This sounds like the same thing to me.

I'm trying to place a component, assemble a component that is a subassy while working in a higher lever assy.

I hope this clarifies it.

Thanks, Mike

Hey David,

I'm not sure what you mean here. In order to find the axis I want to constrain to in the component I'm trying to assemble... I thought I would use the search tool. I open the search tool it defaults to the assy I'm assembling to I need to change it so it will see the features of the component in the component window I choose the arrow under the "look in" box I use pick from list since my component is an assy when I choose the top assy of the component, I get that error message I mentioned initially.

I don't understand the "searching for components instead of parts" statement. I don't know where or when I'm supposed to do that.

Sorry being so vague I was trying not to type details ad-nauseum as above :)

Thanks for your help.

Mike

The details of what you are doing and how you be trying to do it are important; everything, in fact. Bet if you were paying by the minute for support you'd be articulate and concise.

Assembling the bits and pieces (oops, I made a pun), it looks like...

- - - - - - - - - I'm trying to place a component, assemble a component that is a subassy while working in a higher lever assy.

In order to find the axis I want to constrain to in the component I'm trying to assemble...

I thought I would use the search tool.

I open the search tool. It defaults to the assy I'm assembling to.

I need to change it so it will see the features of the component in the component window.

I choose the arrow under the "look in" box.

I use pick from list since my component is an assy when I choose the top assy of the component, I get that error message I mentioned initially.

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I don't know for sure but think that objects in the component window are 'outside the scope' of the main window Find fuction. Edit > Find cannot be launched from a menu in the component window. You should be able to go on about it if you pick the component in the main window.

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Sorry for being so obtuse, Mike, and I sure hope you figured it out on your own by now. I know we weren't a lot of help. Anyway, apparently, none of us have run into this kind of message before and suspect that it's a process problem: something to do with the way you're assembling the component or selecting the axis. So far as I recall, if you can see it onscreen, you can pick it and use it in an assembly constraint. Makes me wonder, though, why you're using the Search function: can you see the axis? if you can't see it, you can't pick it for an assembly reference (layer problem?). If you can see it, why're you using the shotgun approach of the Search utility, which will find WAY too much? So, we're going to play "the tech support challenge" where I ask you a bunch of questions and you mumble some phrases in response untill we have enough information to solve the problem. Hey, I'm game, how about you!

I was offline for a few days, laptop died in the midst of a partitioning operation, got a used Dell Optiflex GX 260 and spent the last couple days getting it up and running, including getting email and news functioning. I'm not back 100% but I'm back Anyone know a good GPU for this machine? Please, someone suggest a GeForce4 card that I can try to softquadro. I'll be the guinea pig, the fall guy, the straight man ~ I've been told I'm good at it. And I'll report the results here.

-- David Janes