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fastners removes fully defined status of assembly

fastners removes fully defined status of assembly

fastners removes fully defined status of assembly

(OP)
before i added fastners, i had all the parts in the assembly fully defined. ie. you couldn't move any of the parts and the property manager had no "(-)" next to the parts.

after i use smart fastners to "populate all" the holes in an assembly all the parts have a "(-)" next to them to tell me i have to mate them in order to fully define them in the assembly. but i cannot acctually seem to move them and when i enter another mate it always overdefines it!

[i seem to have found a work around though - i have to add any mate to OVERDEFINE the assembly, then just delete that mate. then it fixes the "(-)" issue]

is it a bug or am i doing something wrong or ???

RE: fastners removes fully defined status of assembly

Mates have been acting pretty weird in 2005. I'm have problems editing a simple concentricity mate. I usally have to delete it and re-create it.

Macduff
Senior Designer/Checker
Dell Precision PWS370
Pentium(4)2.80GHz
Ram 2.00 GB
SW2005 Pro SP 1.1
XP Pro SP2.0
NIVIDA Quadro FX 1300

RE: fastners removes fully defined status of assembly

Are you sure that they are totally locked down.  The fasteners may be coincident and concentric but nothing to keep them from rotating.  I can only guess that the answer is not what I just said but other than that it's nothing Ctrl-Q can't take care of.  

KM

RE: fastners removes fully defined status of assembly

(OP)
i was sure they were locked down before.

and Ctrl-Q worked a treat! Thanks!

(i had tried the rebuild before... didn't know about force rebuild.)

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