fastners removes fully defined status of assembly 1

[phathag]

before i added fastners, i had all the parts in the assembly fully defined. ie. you couldn't move any of the parts and the property manager had no "(-)" next to the parts.

after i use smart fastners to "populate all" the holes in an assembly all the parts have a "(-)" next to them to tell me i have to mate them in order to fully define them in the assembly. but i cannot acctually seem to move them and when i enter another mate it always overdefines it!

[i seem to have found a work around though - i have to add any mate to OVERDEFINE the assembly, then just delete that mate. then it fixes the "(-)" issue]

is it a bug or am i doing something wrong or ???

 

[SBaugh]

Did you try a Ctrl-Q to see if that fixed the issue without having to add the mate?

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376
faq559-716 - SW Fora Users

 

[macduff]

Mates have been acting pretty weird in 2005. I'm have problems editing a simple concentricity mate. I usally have to delete it and re-create it.

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[kmaren]

Are you sure that they are totally locked down. The fasteners may be coincident and concentric but nothing to keep them from rotating. I can only guess that the answer is not what I just said but other than that it's nothing Ctrl-Q can't take care of.

KM

 

[phathag]

i was sure they were locked down before.

and Ctrl-Q worked a treat! Thanks!

(i had tried the rebuild before... didn't know about force rebuild.)