Moving part files into new folders breaks assemblies.
Moving part files into new folders breaks assemblies.
(OP)
I wasn't very smart when I made my parts and assemblies and the organization of the part/assembly files are atrocious. I use the built-in solidworks explorer to move the part files to new folders, but this breaks the assemblies that rely on the part files because now the part files are not in their original location.
If I move 20 parts then I've got 20 errors that I have to manually fix to get my assembly working again.
Is there any way to fix this? Does Solidworks 2009 have an intelligent update feature where it updates the references in the assembly when a part file is moved?
If I move 20 parts then I've got 20 errors that I have to manually fix to get my assembly working again.
Is there any way to fix this? Does Solidworks 2009 have an intelligent update feature where it updates the references in the assembly when a part file is moved?






RE: Moving part files into new folders breaks assemblies.
RE: Moving part files into new folders breaks assemblies.
I'm a little confused though:
Say that I have Assembly 1 that references these two parts:
C:/solidworks/stuff/part1
C:/solidworks/stuff/part2
And now I change the "stuff" folder name to "things."
C:/solidworks/things/part1
C:/solidworks/things/part1
But what I've found is that the assembly still breaks. It can find "part1," but it can no longer locate "part2," even though both parts are in the same folder!
RE: Moving part files into new folders breaks assemblies.
RE: Moving part files into new folders breaks assemblies.
Question: Does solidworks need to index the locations first before the parts can be moved safely? How do you tell Solidworks to begin indexing?
RE: Moving part files into new folders breaks assemblies.
RULE No. 1 is that SW searches memory first when looking for external references. So if a file with the same name as that referenced by the assembly is open in memory, the references are fixed.
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