Dragging and droping parts from the Design Library

Help.

I've got an extensive parts library built up that I've got all set up
in the design library folders. I'm running into a problem which
significantly reduces the usability of the parts. Every time I drag a
part from the design library into an assembly that already has a copy
of that part I get a window which asks "a document named xxxx.sldprt is
already opened. Do you want to show this already opened document?".

The problem the part doesn't visually appear so you can toggle the
orientation with the tab key like I've been able to do all along.

Any ideas as to what is wrong and how to fix this?

Thanks,

Chris

 

I don't have any ideas here as mine appears to work properly. SW2006 SP2.0.

WT

 

I'm still on 2005 but this is a real pain. Seems to be inconsistent in
it's behavior.

Anybody out there experience this?

cd

 

Ah hah, it sounds like you have an assy that is referencing a part file that
lost its reference to your library, so when you try to drop in another copy,
it balks at the same name insertion. If that's the case, maybe you could
look at changing the existing parts to again reference the library parts.

WT

 

It's odd because it's not consistant. There is something quirky in
this assembly and for the life of me I have no idea what it is.

Starting a new assembly allows the dragging and dropping to work just
fine.

Sigh.

Thanks for the feedback

Chris

 

It's odd because it's not consistant. There is something quirky in
this assembly and for the life of me I have no idea what it is.

Starting a new assembly allows the dragging and dropping to work just
fine.

Sigh.

Thanks for the feedback

Chris