component could not be added to the assembly at this location - FIX
I am running Solidworks 2016 and I also had the same error, but I also had nothing showing on the screen. The tree still had all the parts, but nothing was there. I called my Solidworks support company and the gentleman said he never seen anything like it (we did a screen share on the internet). We figured out that a cad model I got from a vendor had errors. Find the parts you did not draw, which were most likely not drawing in Solidworks and run the “Import Diagnostics” for it. What I found was the part had "Faulty faces" and "Gaps between faces". This is exactly what I did in order (which you don't have to do exactly, but this is what I did): 1. delete "Bad" from the assembly 2. save and exit the assembly. 3. Open "bad" part, run “Import Diagnostics”, then save and exit part. 4. re-opened the assembly and re-insert the “Fixed” part. 5. save and exit the "Fixed" assembly. 6. re-opened the “Fixed” assembly and it "Should" be fixed. It worked that way for me......that's why I registered to 3dcadforums (I did not find this looking on the internet, but this fixed it........so I am sharing what I learned.) If you need more info you can contact me.
