I've got an assembly that is behaving strangely.
Components no longer move by dragging if they have ANY mates.
Components will drag freely if NO mates applied.
NO the component is not fixed.
NO the component is not part of a sub-assembly
System option "Move components by dragging" IS checked.
It is ONLY this assembly. Other assemblies work fine.
Anybody else experienced this or have any ideas or a solution?
Sadly. No. It's very weird behavior.
I can ADD the correct mates and the part will move into position.
It's not a specific component.
It's not a specific mating face/plane
I've tried randomly suppressing (unrelated) mates and it sometimes temporarily 'fixes' itself.
But as soon as I add additional mates, the assembly locks up. No errors. No warnings.
The components just don't move when drag.
I've had this issue in the past, but it went away as randomly as it appeared. As you state, no rhyme or reason to it. Thankfully, it hasn't happened in a while.
I have the same problem here; sometimes I don't have a mate and cannot drag the part in an assembly and sometimes I have only suppressed mates, but the part remains "locked". When I add a mate or suppress one, the part becomes free of the lock state, this is very awkward and it seems totally random, but happens to me a couple of times/ week
I haven't personally run into the issue, but I don't doubt that it exists. If re-starting your computer doesn't fix it and you don't have a graphics card issue I'd suggest getting your VAR involved.
I have had this issue before as well.
Generally, hitting CTRL Q resolves the issue.
Also, make sure that the following is checked.
I just encountered this issue. I found that the first part imported is in a fixed location. I had to right click the part in the tree, and have it float before I could mate it and still have it move within the mating constraints.
Ashley Otte wrote:
I just encountered this issue. I found that the first part imported is in a fixed location. I had to right click the part in the tree, and have it float before I could mate it and still have it move within the mating constraints.
Hello Ashley,
Welcome to the forum. That's intended behavior, and how SW has always worked (or at least it has since 2009 when I started using it). Why can't I move the first component I inserted in my Assembly? may be of help if you'd like to take a look.
The only thing I can think of is to check the Mates and make sure that Lock wasn't chosen by accident for the Mate types.