Am I the only one or does this version have the tendency to go of the rails?
The last few weeks I have time and time again that some bit of routing suddenly for no apparent reason lights up yellow or even red.
The 'what's wrong' message only gives a very unhelpful message. The red dashed line showing where the error occurs shows the entire route. Troubleshooting the offending route gives no solution.
What does work however is : Close SW down. Restart it and everything is hunkydory again.
Until.... at some point it decides it isn't.
The fake error even pops up if I, while having the top ASM open, request to open a sub-ASM which has absolutely nothing shared with the routing ASM's, don't alter a thing, close it and some routes give errors. Ah, I hear you think, it's because of a rebuilt. Wrong. Because no matter on what level I do a force rebuilt, everything is fine.
Another thing that happens is that by using 'Cover' on a route I get the typical circular reference problem, as in it keeps telling me that it has to be rebuilt.
Remove the covering and all's well. Put a bit of covering anywhere on the route and it's back.
Yep, it sure helps that we only have to deal with what we want to design, imagine what time we would lose if we had to deal with the software being a PITA.
ha! You think thats bad, try working on an assembly in large assembly mode (excess of 500 components). I have to save after every change I make to the assembly out of fear of corruption or crashes. I have this wonderful re-occurring glitch that prevents me from dragging and dropping in custom parts that I have made. only way to get them to work is close down Solidworks and try again then eventually it works. The Routing feature on 2015 is plagued with more bugs than i have seen before but then again this is the largest project I've had to do so naturally I will run into new problems as I delve deeper into things. Anyways one of the things I have learned is that the larger your assembly get the less you can fudge things and cut corners so to speak. you need to design your parts in the correct "way" and not take short cuts otherwise you get some serious issues. So proper component design is necessary. also i have came across an almost infinite amount of graphical glitches while routing, and sometimes my components in my assemblies will revert to previous versions causing loss of connection and routing points ect... Thank goodness for the replace component tool.