Mating icon in an assembly is Greyed Out????
Mating icon in an assembly is Greyed Out????
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I have an assembly that I have been working in and when I went to insert some new mates I found the "paperclip" and insert "Mate" are all greyed out. Suggestions as to why this is happening are very much appreciated....I have already closed SW and restarted it with no change.
Bloodclot
Bloodclot
I come from a small town where the population NEVER changed. Everytime someone got pregnant, someone left town.






RE: Mating icon in an assembly is Greyed Out????
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
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I come from a small town where the population NEVER changed. Everytime someone got pregnant, someone left town.
RE: Mating icon in an assembly is Greyed Out????
You may have to check all the parts to make sure that is not the case.
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RE: Mating icon in an assembly is Greyed Out????
I've had that happen on occasion. The workaround I used was to start editing a part within the assembly and then go back to editing the assembly. That got the mate icon to turn back on.
IMO, this is basically a dopeslap for Solidworks. I have no idea why it happened, but it didn't happen more than a couple times, at least to me. It's almost as if Solidworks thought you were editing a part in the context of the assembly and by actually starting to edit the part and then stopping you flipped some switch that made the program start behaving again.
Hope this helps.
RE: Mating icon in an assembly is Greyed Out????
Thanks dgowans!
I come from a small town where the population NEVER changed. Everytime someone got pregnant, someone left town.