Pattern order

Please read this whole post before replying.

I don't know just when this started, but it appears that, for the most part,
you can not change the order of part patterns in an assy file. Used to be
(since the version of SW that got rid of the different pattern groups) that
you could drag and drop mostly all you wanted. Sometimes you would get the
"no way" symbol, but letting go of it did work. When there weren't
parent/child issues, it would work, but now it seems that it basically
never works. I even tried changing the name of Pattern2 to Pattern3 so it
would then come after Pattern4, but that didn't work.

Does any one have any insight into what's going on here? Any options other
than blow away the pattern that you want to move down and recreate it? The
reason for all of this is that as you develop a design, you tend to add more
parts, and some of the time, you want to add these to an existing pattern.
Not a problem, unless the parts you want to add are part of another, later
pattern (pattern a pattern) and when you edit the first pattern, the later
pattern isn't available. Oh, that naming thing...just kidding.

WT

 

This has been a around for a while, maybe since 2003 I think. Please
submit this to your VAR and let's hope it gets fixed finally.

Jason