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Question asked by John Wilkes on Nov 15, 2012
Latest reply on Dec 3, 2012 by Alin Vargatu

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Hi,

Any ideas on how to rectify a problem (on quite a complex assembly which will take a few hours to re-assemble and fully mate) where the 'Normal To' icon results in a crazy angle, no matter what face or plane is selected?

Also, at the same time this happened, the program decided that the initial (fixed) component in the assembly no longer was fixed, but another one was - so now I have to move the entire assembly around the component that is supposed to freely move... There is a big dent in my solid wooden desk just in front of my keyboard because of this.

Any help would be much appreciated.

John

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Jerry Steiger Dec 3, 2012 3:15 PM
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John,

Did you work this out on your own by now?

You can easily change which component or components are "fixed" in an assembly and which are "floating". Just right click on a component in the tree. If it is fixed, then click on the command "Float". If it is floating, click on the command "Fix".

Jerry S.
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- John Wilkes @ Jerry Steiger on Dec 3, 2012 3:40 PM
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  Thanks Jerry,
  
  After re-assemblimg my computer following a little 'incident', I did actually find the fix you suggested.
  But as always, any assistance is much appreciated.
  
  Kind regards,
  
  John
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Alin Vargatu Dec 3, 2012 3:28 PM
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Jerry is asking the right questions and providing the perfect advice in this matter.

My question is: Did you dissolve any subassemblies inside the main assembly? The subassembly mates (including fixed conditions) are transferred to the main assembly upon dissolving of the subassembly.
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- John Wilkes @ Alin Vargatu on Dec 3, 2012 3:53 PM
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  Hi Alin,
  
  No, I didn't. The assembly contained no supressed or dissolved sub-assemblies.
  This has been a particularly problem strewn project - after changing the view state of one component (to make it appear as brushed Brass), the entire assembly depicted itself as so. To the extent that it became impossible to alter the transparency of this or any other component in the assembly.
  I realise that this isn't particularly pertinent to the original topic, but any suggestions are more than welcome - I've done everything I can think of, including linking, un-linking and deleting display states from the property manager. No dice - the sodding thing remains as a solid brushed Brass assembly.
  I ended up having to scrap it and assemble from scratch. If you or anyone else have a trick you can provide, I'd be very appreciative - personally, I think it's a bug in the code.
  
  Thanks,
  
  John
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  - Alin Vargatu @ John Wilkes on Dec 3, 2012 4:42 PM
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    John, I am wondering if you have not applied the appearance to the whole assembly. It is quite easy to remove it. Can you post a snapshot of your feature manager with the display pane expanded?
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