Assembly pocket piece of crap

[Wallybanger]

I've created tonnes of Assembly pockets before and they have never come in as solids before Any idea how to make this god damn pocket work as a pocket and not a pad?

Man, Catia makes me madder than just about anything else I can think of

 

[MrCATIA]

Look in the tree at each part the pocket effects, and look closely at the icon for the PartBody where the pocket is.

If the green gear icon has a yellow '+' sign, than all the features behave as expected.

If the green gear icon has a yellow '-' sign, the PartBody is 'negative" and all features in it will behave with reverse polarity. As you said; pocket works as a pad.

To avoid this situation, don't have material removing feature (Pocket, Groove, Slot, Hole) as the first feature in the PartBody

If you have to have 'negative' PartBodies, then do a Boolean Assemble in order to have the pockets behave as pockets

 

[Wallybanger]

Look in the tree at each part the pocket effects, and look closely at the icon for the PartBody where the pocket is.

If the green gear icon has a yellow '+' sign, than all the features behave as expected.

If the green gear icon has a yellow '-' sign, the PartBody is 'negative" and all features in it will behave with reverse polarity. As you said; pocket works as a pad.

To avoid this situation, don't have material removing feature (Pocket, Groove, Slot, Hole) as the first feature in the PartBody

If you have to have 'negative' PartBodies, then do a Boolean Assemble in order to have the pockets behave as pockets

Thanks MC. I had a look at it but couldn't really figure it out. there was no negative body. We use a program called Viva to automatically assemble some models and it can be a real useless PITA some times. I ended up deleting the features I was pocketing and installing new ones and the problem just went away.