Assembly mate errors after opening a drawing 2016 SP05, Flexible Mates??

That is kind of what I am thinking as well, just getting annoying to have thing all blown up

may have to check with our local var and see what they say.

Thanks,

Hi,

The flexible mates are on some of the assemblies, showing a cylinder at a given part handling position, on my drawings I have this fixed at mid part position, so nothing is moving on the drawing just it has sub-assemblies set to flexible so I didn't have to add a configuration to the cylinder and then the sub-assembly that contains the cylinder showing the cylinder in the part position, hence leaving both the cylinder free or Flexible and the sub-assembly free or Flexible so I can then constrain them at the top level assembly showing part at nominal, highest and lowest position all using the free or Flexible configuration, other wise I would need to have 3 minimum in both the cylinder and the sub-assembly, and like most companies we use purchased components models like cylinders for a number of assemblies, so suddenly you need a cylinder model with configurations for every .1 of inch or more which is not really patical, let alone trying to keep track of.

Sorry if I am coming off wrong, just want you to understand the reasoning for the whole flexible mates, as they do fun things to a models and drawings so I was suspecting it might have something to do with my issues maybe not, but I have seen similar issues in the past.

Regards,

Yeah I have done this but, I would figure by now that this shouldn't still be like that, I know the earlier versions you would always have to toggle mates and constraints to get the errors to go away, just never had it only show up in the drawing and have that drive it back thru the assembly files

Regards,