Recently, I've seen an influx of the error in the image below. Can someone explain what could be causing this? To my knowledge, nothing has changed in the assembly. Both faces are unsuppressed and virtual inside the same assembly. Now it seems one face has referenced to another assembly? Is that possible?
I can manual delete **External**Face<2> and re-select the face and it is fixed, but some of my assemblies have dozens of these errors. I can't spend a week manually fixing all of them!
One thing to try is when you're in the assembly suppress the entire feature tree, then starting at the top unsuppress each item, if the problem remains it will show up at the unsuppressed assembly.
Does this problem keep recurring with the same parts? In other words, once you fix the problem, does it stay fixed, or does it show back up again when you reopen the assembly at a later time?
We are now experiencing a somewhat similiar error, and they persist even after correcting them.
all parts and assemblies are individual files.
the **External** is pointing at the right part, although I don't get it why one line uses actual file names and the other shows a description
Im having the same issue.
A lot of mates are suppressed by SW, and cant be unsuppressed. The mate typically shows up as "ConcentricXXX (PART1, FACE)" etc.
Its very annoying compared to the errors you get when changing a part so much that the reference geometry is not recognized anymore.
If this happens, you get an error and can see a red dotted line where the mate were before, so that you could change a missing face, edge etc.
Could this be related to having multiple copies of the same part in different folders? It's a problem we get frequently where I work, for a variety of reasons. It goes away once the copies are renamed or removed.
The face that was selected for the original mate is now missing. Just edit the mate and re-select the face.
It just means that the face is not there anymore. Did you change names perhaps or change solids?
Steve C