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Inconsistancy in finding subassemblies at different assembly levels

Inconsistancy in finding subassemblies at different assembly levels

Inconsistancy in finding subassemblies at different assembly levels

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I don't understand why I am getting the result I am.

I have subassembly A. I can open this part file and it loads OK.
I now close all pats and load the next higher assembly which includes subassembly A as a component. In this case subassembly A can not find some of its components.

If it finds all its components in the first case how is it that it can not find those same components when loaded in the second case?

There is only a single subassembly A in a single directory. In both cases "INFORMATION" on subassembly A shows its location to be the same and its version to be the same.

The assemblies are being loaded "As Saved"

I am going to pull up the subassembly A first, then the upper level assembly and then re-save the upper level assembly. Hopefully that will solve my problem but I would like to understand what is going on.



 

I am using 7.5.2.5 NATIVE on Dell with windows XP OS

RE: Inconsistancy in finding subassemblies at different assembly levels

I'll bet someone has been creating Reference Sets inside those sub-assembly Assembly files.  Open your top-level Assembly and then go to the Assembly Navigator and change the Reference Set used for each sub-Assembly to 'Entire Part' (which is what you should be using for sub-Assemblies anyway).  Does that help?

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