2 Replies Latest reply on Feb 1, 2017 6:53 AM by Jason Young

Subassembly in assembly won't move

Hanneke Reuvekamp Feb 1, 2017 6:00 AM

Hi guys, i'm building a officeroom and downloaded a solidworksfile of grabcad.

It is a door and it is an assembly. I build this subassembly of the door into my assembly of the office room. Now i want to make an animation through the office but the door won't move.

If i open the door in his own assembly or via isolate, then it moves, but in the whole office assembly it won't. It has mates with the wall it is in. Even after deleting all this mates with the wall, it is not working. I set the part to flexible, so that won't solve the problem. I constantly get the message that the door is fully defined, but i don't get how.

I also checked the list of external references and locked all of them. This is also not working.

Can somebody help me to get the door moving?

Re: Subassembly in assembly won't move

Christopher Boyles Feb 1, 2017 6:42 AM (in response to Hanneke Reuvekamp)

Hi,

By default when you bring in a Sub-Assembly into your assembly it comes in as "Rigid", fixing it's shape so that the main assembly does not have to calculate the mates of the sub-assembly, reducing the require processing power. You can make the sub-assembly move by making it "Flexible", the option is found by right clicking on the sub assembly:

Mates can restrict more than one degree of freedom, therefore the more mates it has can exponentially increase the processing power not double it.

Hopefully this helped you,
Chris
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  Jason Young Feb 1, 2017 6:53 AM (in response to Christopher Boyles)
  
  i stumbled across feature this a few weeks ago,
  
  was a great help for altering a few things higher up the assembly tree.
  
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