Hi I have created an assembly containing both parts and assemblies. I have mated everything together and right now it's still in two large parts. When I try to mate them together it refuses yet nothing is fixed and there are no other mates mates between the two seperate parts yet. I am stumped as to what else to check. Any ideas? I also can't move either of the larger parts around.
Thanks.
Thomas,
I'm confused by what you wrote. Your assembly contains both parts and assemblies, but you say you have mated everything together and now it's still in two large parts. Do you mean that you mated all the parts and subassemblies into two large subassemblies? You are now trying to mate the two large subassemblies to each other?
Jerry S.
Apologies I was in a rush when I wrote it and a poor choice of words. It contains both parts and assemblies imported into the assembly and I think the problem is that I mated them to each other in two larger sections and then tried to mate these two sections together. But they are not set as sub assemblies. So say I have 6 pieces I have mated parts 1-3 together then parts 4-6 together and then tried to mate 3 and 4 together. All parts and assemblies are mated together as slots too which doesn't help as it always has to move the slots.
Anyway I think if I mate them one at a time from a fixed part it will work properly. Does that sound correct?
Thanks.
Thomas,
Although it may make it easier to understand to mate one at a time, you should be able to mate them in the fashion you have described. As others have said, there is probably a mate or a few mates that are not working the way you expect. Some of the mate types are less forgiving or have more problems. The Standard Mates are probably less likely to have problems.
Jerry S.
I ended up fixing it by surpressing all mates, creating the final needed mate then unsurpressing them one at a time. So all the mates were correct from the start and it should have worked. I think it just didnt like moving all the free slots around very much.
Sounds like both items are fixed. Do they have an (F) next to them in the feature tree. If so right click on it then select float for one of them.
No I had already checked they were not fixed. After closing and reopening the document I could drag the two parts around but not mate them still.
Expand the part in the feature tree and look in the mates folder under the parts and make sure you dont have a wierd mate you didnt realize.
Had already done that a few times and mates were as they should be. Ended up surpressing them all to make the last one then unsurpressing them one at a time and it worked. Proves all the mates were correct and should have worked.
if you can't drag them around, SW believes they are fully defined. sounds like you may have mated more than you intended so far.
Hello Thomas,
Welcome to the forum. It's going to be difficult to diagnose the problem without more information. Can you do a pack and go of the main assembly into a Zip folder and post it here? Click on the test "Use advanced editor" at top right of the Reply dialog box to post files.