i have a large assembly with a subassebly. when i openned the top assy that subassy came apart. i deleted all the files in its folder and put in the good one from my backup folder. i openned the subassy and i was fine. i openned the top assy and it still opens that bad sub assy wich was deleted. what is going on here?
this is crazy, if i open the subassy from the browser of the top assy its a mess. if i go to the folder where the subassy is located and open it from there its ok. i check find references and it says it in the correct folder. somehow the subassy i deleted is still being found or is it the top assy wont fix the constaints.
I think it might help to know more about what is going wrong. Is it being overdefined? Are parts moving where they shouldn't? Or maybe something else?
If something like this happens to an assembly I open I will first suppress all the mates in the main assembly associated with the subassembly. Then open the subassembly and rebuild (Ctrl+Q). If the errors are still there I will try reloading the subassembly. If that clears up the subassembly I will then flip back to the main assembly and see if it errors out again. If not then I start turning the mates on one at a time looking for the culprit.
there are screws wich are being replaced by screws located on the server and not in place just sitting out in space, so i deleted the subassy from its folder on my c drive and replaced it with a backup. if i open the subassy alone its fine when i open it from the top assy its still messed up. i cant find where solidworks has this messed up subassy hidden.
so now i openned the good subassy, left it openned, then i openned the top assy and it finally shows the good subassy.
now i closed them without saving, i openned the top assy and sure enough it has the messed up subassy.
If you save now it should remember the correct subassembly next time.
no that didnt work
it only works if i have the good sub open first
Scott,
When you open the good sub first, then open the main assembly and everything is OK, I would suggest doing a pack and go of the main assembly to a different folder. Then close all the original files, open the new assembly, and see if everything is OK.
It sounds like it must be something in the rebuild of the main assembly when it opens. I have had this happen from time to time with flange bolting I made into subassemblies with different configurations for the different flange sizes. For that I would need to reload the subassembly while in the main assembly to clear the errors. Every once and a while I would have to update the bolting assembly this way. The last time I did I showed the rebuild/save mark for all the configurations. I then went to each config. and did a Ctrl+Q. I then saved the subassembly. So far this has worked. Maybe this might work for your subassembly.
it looks like the other designer worked on another subassy and used some hardware from another folder on the server, when i openned the assy the wrong hardware was coming in with no constaints. this is a problem because the server is too slow so i build my models on my c drive so there are duplicate parts on the server. i had to reconstrain all the screws and washers. what a pita.
Looks like we posted at the same time. Reopen the subassembly and then the top assembly like you did before to have the good subassembly shown. Then save the main assembly (this should also save the subassembly). Hopefully this will clear up your issue.
Is it pulling the deleted file from the place where you deleted it, or maybe someplace else? When weird things like that happen, I check the references before I open the file in the Open File dialog box.