I'm wondering if anyone else is seing something like this. I have a linkage mechanism (simple link members with hinge pins) where I want to make assy configs based on distances from the end of the moving linkage to one of the assembly reference planes. The last component on the end of the linkage can be mouse dragged around with the "Move Component" icon and the linkage moves as expected. If I try to create a distance mate from a point on this same component back to a plane, I get a message saying "Warning: This mate is over defining ....." as soon as I click the distance icon. I can OK the warning message and then put a value into the distance mate, and it sometimes gives a message "Plane and point are not the correct distance apart. Actual distance is xxx, desired is yyyy" where yyyy is the distance I want as a mate. On one occasion it applied the distance without this message and got me back to the assembly with a bunch of overdefined mates, mostly on the hinge pins. This is a very simple assembly with no limit mates or anything like that. Mate Diagnostics doesn't appear to be functional at all.
Is there a serious bug in the mates function again? (I remember fighting with stuff like this in the last millenium}
Thanks, Bill