Disappearing mates

Hi all

Opening up assemby file created in SW2006. Resolved lightweight and
"saved as" to new name. All mates are gone in each part, mate folder
aswell. Mategroup1 still containing all mates but grayed out like
suppressed and now with an (f) between the symbol and the explaining
text. No option to unsuppress the mates. When I try to edit any of the
grayed out mates is sais "Face? ** Invalid**, or Plane ? **Invalid**.

"Save as copy" works as normal. Anyone else seen this??

SW 2008 Sp2, same in both 64 and 32 bit on two different computers

// Krister

 

The (f) means that the mate is being ignored because the parts
involved are fixed in place. Select all parts / top-level
subassemblies, right click, select "Float". Your mates should come
back into existence.
-Mark

 

No parts were fixed in place before save as...except for the first
part in the tree and that one is still fixed, all others are really
floating, no mates what so ever left. Also component patterns looses
the direction refernce. But it's more fun than that....seems like
closing down the file and open it up again solves the problem, and it
also looks like this behaviour is isolated to assemblies with an
assembly feature in it. I was working on two different assemblies and
both of 'em had an assembly cuts.
Not really sure about the closing and opening procedure...doesn't seem
to work instantly and I can't repeat it at the moment....might have
something to do with rerence to the old assembly.

// Krister

 

Gosh, If I knew the easiest way to get rid of my mate was to fix her,
that would be awsome. ;-)

 

John

I'm aware of the lightweight problems and they sure gave me the
hickups a few times.

Got it confirmed though from my VAR that it's a bug in Sp2....they can
repeat the problem there but not in SP1.1

// Krister