Has anyone experienced mates in an assembly getting replaced with a "fixed" condition? I'm not chiding we are having this happen and nobody is taking ownership of making the changes. We are having assemblies built with mated parts and when opening it the next day all mates are gone and parts are fixed.
The mates are gone-as in you expand the mate folder and there are none there or they're grayed out and displaying with (f) before the mate names?
Mates are gone and all parts are fixed. It's like somebody deleted all of the mates and fixed all of the parts. I'm not joking!
Has someone been replacing the assembly with an imported geometry version from a step file or something similar?
I mean, I've heard of assembly mate issues where mates will fail to solve after reopening and even a couple of cases where mates weren't there after a save, but removing mates and fixing components sounds too deliberate for a software glitch.
What version of Solidworks are you using and what software are you using for document managment?
I ask the second one because it's feasible that even if you're checking a file into a vault, that the vault version isn't updating. This can happen if you exhaust the available revisions and it was a problem in SolidWorks 2009. Any of this ring a bell?
John,
SW2014 SP5. All of the models were made in house so none of them were .steps. We don't have a vault, we use a Windows filing system. I'm seriously beginning to think the fellow that noticed this issue may be seeing two different models with similar builds. I'm pretty damn sure none of that can be done without a human being doing it. Thanks for the input though. You never know with how unstable SW has gotten that all of this could've been a software glitch.
Okay it has happened again. User mated several components. Saved, exited for the evening and when he opened the assembly this morning every component except for two had their mates suppressed and were fixed. Nobody had gone into the assembly and changed it. This is very un-nerving.
I've never heard of anything like this issue either. It might be time to get your VAR involved and see if they can figure anything out.
Glenn,
I did contact our VAR and he thinks that we have a poltergeist.
Carl Juchem wrote:
Glenn,
I did contact our VAR and he thinks that we have a poltergeist.
He may be right.
Maybe look at the file history when this happens to see who was the last person to save.