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Mate Error Explosion

Mate Error Explosion

Mate Error Explosion

(OP)
I’m having a time trying to get any work done.  I’m rolling along with my assembly and I add the latest part and BAM a bunch of previously inserted parts now have mate errors.  They seem to be unrelated (no mates between the old and new parts) and yet the go to over defining.  Is there a good source to read up on mates?  Maybe there is a theory or convention that I’m missing.  Thanks in advance.

RE: Mate Error Explosion

(OP)
It seems that when I was unable to add the final mate to hold the part in place I fixed it in place.  This is what caused the errors.  I unfix them and the errors go away.  I just don’t get it how fixing a part over defines it.  It should just hold it in place.

RE: Mate Error Explosion

Which version of SW are you using?

When the Fix is used on a component in SW07, it suppresses existing mates for that component so that over-definition does not occur. Older versions did not do this.

cheers

RE: Mate Error Explosion

Mate errors like that are supremely frustrating.  You just have to bite your tongue, take a swig off of your flask and plug away.  Sometimes overdefinition errors are the hardest to track down.  I usually end up supressing/unsuppressing or adding/deleting mates until I track down the supposed offender.  Many times after a couple of CTRL-Q's and a couple of swigs all of the problems are gone.

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com

RE: Mate Error Explosion

(OP)
I'm with you Dan...

I'm using SW08.

RE: Mate Error Explosion

2008 doesn't auto-suppress the non-fix mates?  Ug.  I remember discovering this nice feature somewhere in 2007 and thought it clever.  (I usually use Fix only when quickly jamming out an assembly.)

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all.  And awe transcends reason.

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