I have a mold design that is giving me fits. I did my basic core/cavity split in a separate assembly and then used the resultant parts as base parts in my final design. These have a fairly complex parting line based on imported geometry. As I developed the parting line I ran into problems with general faults cropping up. I learned to do a body check periodically to make sure I hadn't created bad geometry. I finally got to where I had a core and cavity split which checked out with no errors.
Then when I started working with the derived parts, I started noticing problems. Come to find out that every time I start work, the base parts have general faults in them. I have to go back to my split and do a control `q' and this fixes everything. Then go back to my final mold design and everything is fine-but just for the current session. I can save the assembly with no errors in it; end the session of SW; go have lunch and open SW again and the errors are back. Going back to the split and doing a ctrl. q fixes it again , but after going through this about 5 times, I now realize that this needs to be done every time I begin a new session of SW.
I have rolled back through my split and found a surface that seems to be the culprit. I have deleted and re-constructed it in a different way and all seems to be well. Next time I open up my design though, it's got general faults unless I go back and do a forced rebuild on the base split parts.
SW 2005, sp5 on an AMD 3400+ (nVidia xgl 1100) with 2gb ram running Win2k. verification on rebuild `on'.
Any advice would be appreciated.
jk