Disappearing mates

The (f) means that the mate is being ignored because the parts involved are fixed in place. Select all parts / top-level subassemblies, right click, select "Float". Your mates should come back into existence.

-Mark

No parts were fixed in place before save as...except for the first part in the tree and that one is still fixed, all others are really floating, no mates what so ever left. Also component patterns looses the direction refernce. But it's more fun than that....seems like closing down the file and open it up again solves the problem, and it also looks like this behaviour is isolated to assemblies with an assembly feature in it. I was working on two different assemblies and both of 'em had an assembly cuts. Not really sure about the closing and opening procedure...doesn't seem to work instantly and I can't repeat it at the moment....might have something to do with rerence to the old assembly.

// Krister

"Krister_L" wrote

If you open an assembly lightweight, it can play havoc with feature-driven component patterns. Even if you subsequently resolve all components, the patterns only work properly if you edit each pattern feature (don't have to change anything, just edit and OK).

Best bet is to open assys fully resolved every time, unless you only want to quickly view it. That way, patterns and equations (and some mates) will work as intended.

John H

John

I'm aware of the lightweight problems and they sure gave me the hickups a few times.

Got it confirmed though from my VAR that it's a bug in Sp2....they can repeat the problem there but not in SP1.1

// Krister

Inventor does the same sort of things.

Bob