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SW Exploded View Misbehavior

SW Exploded View Misbehavior

SW Exploded View Misbehavior

(OP)
Hello World,
SW '05 (yeah '05)
Anyone ever had this problem?
Opened an existing exploded view Assembly which contains sub-assys. All is fine except for one sub-assy. This particular sub assy has about 6 explosion steps, but on the very first step to bring it out from the main assy as a  sub-assy unit something wacky occurs. Two of the sub-assy components (identical parts, similar mates) drift farther and farther in the same direction of the drag but at what seems to be twice the rate. So at zero drag of sub-assy the components are connected to the sub-assy as they should be, and at about 15" of sub-assy drag the components have moved about 30".
I've exhausted the scanty help file and am still unsuccessful

Thanks for any advice

Failure is a prerequisite of successful design

RE: SW Exploded View Misbehavior

It sounds like they (the individual parts) have been selected twice in one or more steps. Sadly, it's not impossible to do, believe me. I've done it before...Go through each explosion step that involves said parts/sub-assembly and make sure that's not what happened.
I wish I could remember the exact circumstance in which it happened, but my photographic memory is out of film.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP2.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM, nVidia 2500M
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog

RE: SW Exploded View Misbehavior

Also, when you go through the exploded steps see if the "Select Sub-Assembly's Parts" is checked or not checked.  This can sometimes cause some problems.

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SWx 2007 SP 3.0 & Pro/E 2001
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RE: SW Exploded View Misbehavior

(OP)
Heckler I fiddled with that checkbox with no avail. Thanks for the suggestion.

Ah Ha! In addition to listing the Sub-Assy, the components were listed as well in the same explosion step.
Thanks JMirisola.

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