Hello,
I am using Solidworks 2017 and i am having trouble with an assembly not letting me delete any parts and they have a green arrow that points to the left. Also when i right click on the part there is not a part referenced to open How can i fix this please help.
Thank you.
This is what is shown and every part is still in its original folder. Also when i look in the references tab when i open the assembly everything seems to be in the correct place.
Also I created a new assembly with random parts just to see if it will keep doing it and it does.
I don't see any green arrow from your screenshot
Also did you open the assembly from the server which was shared by someone else at the time you tried to delete the parts?
By the way, did you see a message popup as the one I show here when you deleted parts?
Christian Chu wrote:
I don't see any green arrow from your screenshot
I assume he means this green arrow on the Part icons. I don't believe I've ever seen it before.
I opened the assembly in my local c drive and the parts are also saved in the same folder. The green arrow is shown in the part icon as Glenn marked in the screenshot.
That is really strange!! I've never seen it and, apparently, not even Solidworks....
Are you sure you're working in design mode and not in simulation or motion, etc...
Yeah I have never seen this before either. I am pretty sure, is there a way to verify which mode i am in?
I believe that this is part of SolidWorks 3D Interconnect which allows you to import part files created in other formats without translation.
Jim Paige wrote:
I believe that this is part of SolidWorks 3D Interconnect which allows you to import part files created in other formats without translation.
You're right. I should have remembered this thread earlier: What is this Icon...
Well, now we know what it is but I'm at a loss why it can't be deleted.
That seems to be exactly what my issue is but the parts that i placed into the assembly i made in Solidworks so i do not know if i maybe saved the part wrong and it is reading it as an external file.
Not offered as a solution but can you suppress it?
Do you get a warning message when you're trying to delete it?
Which commands appear in the menu when you right click and expand it?
Edit: Did you maybe open up a non-native assembly instead of the SolidWorks version?
Yes it does allow me to suppress
Hi,
I just solved a support regarding the issue. The customers part tamplates was corrupted in the way that SolidWorks thought that the part was a Interconnect part. A fresh Part template solved the issue with new assemblies.
Hope this helps
Unfortunately, no, I'm still having the same issue as Sergio. Any solutions to this? The original part was definitely a SolidWorks interconnect part...
In my case, the delete command does not appear in the right-click menu, is grayed out in the edit menu, and pressing the delete key after selecting the part in the tree simply does nothing. The part is suppressed, and I can't unsuppress it.
Hi Brian,
I think you have to turn 3D Interconnect off before importing the file, so SW physically converts it as a SW file.
Then you have save it, as normal SW files.
After that you can do with it everything you want.
Hope it helps.
This may be a bit of a long shot... but I would go to your Solidworks Options and check your list of dismissed messages.
If you're not sure which one might be causing the issue, just turn them all back on (check them).
Then go back and retry the operation.
I suspect there is some dialog trying to present itself and since it isn't able to do so, it won't let you continue forward.
If you're really loathe to turn on all the dismissed messages, log into a different user profile on the machine, and retry the same operations.
Thanks Sergio! However, I actually don't see that option:
Is there a particular reason that I wouldn't be able to delete an interconnect part, or is that just a SW bug? Seems like interconnect or not, I should be able to delete it?
I didn't see any dialogs that would have prevent that -- also, the delete option is actually just unavailable on the right-click menu, and grayed out in the edit menu.
I would have like to give this a shot anyway, but the file is now fixed -- looks like someone else accessed it on the file server and had better luck than me in deleting the part.
That's the important bit.. you got past it. At least now you have some troubleshooting steps to pocket in case it happens again.
I had this issue just now and read through your whole thread to try to work out what happened.
My issue was a part that was actually a .stp file. For some reason this wasn't loading within my assembly even though it was referencing the correct location / file name. I was unable to delete as you were so I ended up opening the file from the original location. This then triggered the reference to work again and allowed me to unsuppress the file. After this I was able to delete and start again!
RMB on the part ->from Drop Down menu click on List External Refs... ->Break All
Can you post a screenshot here
Seems to me that there are some missing ref. (parts might be moved to different folders) and the assembly couldn't find the parts and as a result, those parts don't exist so you can't delete them