Hello
I have a problem with mates in certain assemblies , we use solidworks proffessional 2014 and PDM at the office and I have a number of assemblies where the mates are marked red and when I fix it , it goes normal , but as soon as I click update it turns red again , I have even gone as far as deleting all the mates and entered them again from scratch ,then they also turn normal again , but even after I have saved that , as soon as I close the model and reopen it again , all the same mates are red again.
Have deleted the mates about 5 times and still nothing changes , it is also not on my licence , the other draughtsman in our office (who works on her own license) is experiencing the same problem with these certain assemblies.
has anyone seen this before?
Hello Jano,
Welcome to the forum. There can be so many causes for mate errors that it's very difficult to say what could be causing the problem without having the assembly with it's parts to look at. Is there any chance you can post it here? (Click on "Use advanced editor" just above the right corner of the text box to post files.)
It could be conflicting mates, too many mates, or any one of several other issues. There may be nothing wrong and a Ctrl+Q rebuild will fix it.
One thing that I learned the hard way is that SW doesn't like mating to components brought in with a Linear Pattern, Mirror, etc. That will cause errors quite often. It's pretty much always better to mate to reference geometry or sketch entities belonging to the assembly, or to parts that were inserted and mated instead. Once in a while I'll do it anyway, but when I do I'm prepared to reach for Ctrl+Q on a regular basis.