Hi all,
I have a rather large assembly file that contains 7 sub assemblies 4 of which have several configurations that relate to several top level configurations, Now in my default configuration or the one I will be using for my drawing I do have 1 flexible mate.
Now as I stated this seems to rear its lovely head every time I open the top level drawing file, now everything comes in lightweight so not sure if that is part of the issue, but I seem to have to toggle the flexible mate and some of the time the errors go away, other times it induces mate errors in other sub-assemblies and once I go to those no errors present, though I did just have a mate that flipped, not sure why, but I flipped it twice and all was good again.
Has anyone else had this issue?
I have tired to be careful not to over constrain anything with too many mates, but maybe some has a idea, as this model is a deliverable to a customer and would rather it not blow-up on them, or the next guy who has to make changes
All of this is on a local hard drive
Regards,
You may want to see how the assembly looks when loaded as Resolved. We have large assemblies where when loaded lightweight there are components hanging out in space or flipped around a coincident mate. When same assembly is loaded Resolved, all components stay in place. I have reported this to our VAR but they say this is a "limitation" of lightweight mode.
Too bad that perhaps the most useful tool for dealing with large assemblies is not reliable.