Cannot find part 2

[Alvan9]

I am trying to open an assembly, and its showing one of my parts in a suppressed mode. It says it cannot locate the file. Is there a way I can look for it and show where the file is. I had to move the part and now the assembly cannot find it. How do i tell the assembly to look "here" for it?

 

[TheTick]

You can use search paths to tell SW where to look for parts. You can also use SW Explorer to reconnect.

You can open the part before opening the assembly. Then ctrl-Q & save w/ updated pointers in assembly.

SW should prompt you to find the file if it can't find it.

 

[Alvan9]

I thought that it is suppose to prompt me, but it doesn't.

 

[lumenharold]

This came up on the SW site as well. I have had this same issue since moving my files to a new PC and organizing my common hardware files. Since the number of "can't find" files is small (1 or 2) and only once in a while, my work around has been to insert another instance of the missing part from the new directory, save, and close. When the file is re-opened the assembly finds the new path for both parts and I can delete the new extra.

Kind of messy but it works for me. I'd rather have a RMB option on the grayed out part to establish a new path.

Harold
SW2008 SP3.0 OPW2008 SP0.1 Win XP Pro 2002 SP2
Dell 690, Xeon 5160 @3.00GHz, 3.25GB RAM
nVidia Quadro FX4600

http://www.lumenflow.com

 

[Standing]

Alvan9,
Open your assembly and un-suppress the part. SolidWorks will tell you it cannot find file. SolidWorks will bring up the browse dialog box and then you manually browse to the location and open it.


Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2008 x64, SP3.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 3400
Use SolidWorks BOM
e-mail is Lotus Notes

 

[Alvan9]

Did that. I does not give me an option to browse for the part. Thats the problem I'm having.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Go to Tools > Options > System Options > Advanced and select the "missing" message to be displayed again.

 

[Alvan9]

That did it, Thanks so much.

 

[lumenharold]

CBL, once again, you are the (star) man. I'll be posting a link to this over at the other site. That's the problem with work-arounds (for me) is that they perpetuate bad habits.

Harold
SW2008 SP3.0 OPW2008 SP0.1 Win XP Pro 2002 SP2
Dell 690, Xeon 5160 @3.00GHz, 3.25GB RAM
nVidia Quadro FX4600

http://www.lumenflow.com