3DContentCentral part hoses Assembly (?)

Very strange 'coincidence' happened the other day. I needed a human size model to place in an assembly to get an idea of scale. I went to

3dcontentcentral, registered, and DL'ed the 2001+ version of MAN 2, 4th down on the Human page, in the Misc Folder of the User Library. I opened the MAN, it's a single part file in 2003sp4 and Saved. Next I inserted it into the large assy file, after placing one mate, I got mate errors in just about every subassy in this file, deep ones that had *nothing* to do with the most recent mates.

After about 30 minutes of trying to find the problem, and well after deleting the MAN from the assy, I gave up and resorted to the backup from the day before, loosing about 4 hours work.

As I was shutting down there were numerous errors in SWX which prevented me from closing it the normal, proper way- I had to kill it thru the Task Manager.

I like the idea of a user library for parts like this, but it's not likely I'll be back after an episode like that.

Anybody ever seen anything like that or had any other problems with

3dcontentcentral?

BTW- anyone have a simple human model that works they could share?

Whit

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Whit
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Could it be that the MAN was "fixed" and as soon as you entered a mate all the fully defined parts in the assembly showed errors?

Al

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A.Peterson

Ooo, I'd feel pretty stoopid if that were the case.

But I'd Inserted many parts in this assy above/before 'him', none of them came in 'fixed'. In fact I've never (in about a year of SWX) seen any part after the first in an assy come in 'fixed'.

Can this happen?

"A.Peters>

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Whit

Whit wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@austin.rr.com:

That usually only happens to me when I try to pick something off the context menu and miss, hitting "fix" instead. That's pretty hard not to notice.

Sometimes SW mates get confused when adding a component. This can happen to completely unconstrained components, or components whose mates have no logical connection to components with mate errors. At any rate, I'm not sure we can blame the MAN model until we've had the same results in other assemblies.

At any rate, user-submitted, public models should maybe be thought of as questionable. Take them one at a time. Try them out. If they work, fine. If not, discard them. I would recommend against giving up on 3dContent Cenral based on one user-submitted model. There's a lot of stuff on there that a lot of people have found very useful.

A possible tangent.... Do you try to practice robust mating techniques (not safe sex)?

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Dale Dunn

We have used a human that came from the SW model library. Go here

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choose one. I personally have used the one by Dan Smith.

WT

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Wayne Tiffany

True, I could have spazzed and done that by accident, I've done it plenty of times before

I've seen it when mates get confused, and all heck breaks loose, but usually simply deleting the part that just caused it will make things right again.

That's true, I did get Homer Simpson to work fine, he's just a little shorter and wider than many of our operators ;o)

I do *try* but I'm sure some of you guys would cringe at some of the things I do. Very little 'formal' edumication in SWX, mostly what I try to pick up lurking here.

I've still got the 'man' in my Recycle Bin if anyone wants to take another look, time constraints on this end, I gotta keep pushing forward.

Thanks Whit

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Whit

Whit wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@austin.rr.com:

Same here. Every once in a while they won't come back again though. In those instances I exit and reload the assembly pretty much right away. I guess it's just another thing to watch out for.

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Dale Dunn

I don't know about a part can come in fixed, maybe some kind of smartmate? I've run into it with subassemblies brought in and dissolved. We have huge libraries of subassemblies and every now & then I'll insert one where the first item wasn't switched to "Float". It's always a shock when you hit Dissolve and a sh*t load of red flags appear!

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A.Peterson

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