wow 2005 animator

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by Zander, Sep 23, 2004.

  1. Zander

    Zander Guest

    this is my story:

    I've been working hard on a family of parts design where all the different
    styles shared some components, not enough to use configs effectively but
    enough to use swexplorer to start each new design with a copy of the last
    one.

    One design had a hinged part that I set up an animation to verify (and show
    my client via an edrawing) that there was adequate clearance for the item to
    swing open. After I made the animation I forgot about it.

    Several designs later, (and at the end of a long and hectic 3 days meeting a
    deadline) I was at the end ONE more PDF to print and I'm done!! Oh yea.

    I use the saveas pdf which (this is an aside) has suddenly become very
    flakey, randomly rotating certain pages to portrait mode. This happened
    several times, so I resorted to printing a pdf, this also wouldn't
    work!???? what's going on, come on it's my last drawing.... etc etc.
    Adobe just hung on page 4 or something.

    In desperation I thought, hey, I'll save the drawing as an edrawing and
    print the pdf from there, maybe it will work better. So I save the
    edrawing, then open it in edrawing viewer. I see a message something to
    the effect 'animation paths blah blah update blah zero point blah blah etc'
    (remember I'm in a frantic hurry at this point (it's 5:15) my sons school
    bar-b-q is in 15 minutes..... So I click yes (or was no) I honestly can't
    remember.

    What happens is.... a long pause....... I see a message in the lower left
    corner saying rebuilding feature x of y etc. A long time
    passes.................... it gets longer...............(assembly is about
    42 parts)..........it finishes...........and kaboom! my assembly is totally
    f***ed up. Busted beyond recognition, somehow the old animation had
    rewritten a couple key distance mates which when it rebuilt cause offset
    geometry to turn yellow (the kind you can't fix). Now it's 5:20

    Honestly the old animation (which I gather is like a config) got activated
    and seriously broke the assembly. It's still not fixed. It was the
    edrawing viewer which initiated this rebuild (yes sw was open at the time)

    I'm totally shocked....
     
    Zander, Sep 23, 2004
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  2. I've been using configurations in parts and assemblies for a couple of years
    now and have never seen anything like this happen before. But a guy I work
    with has.

    Maybe it has to do with how the parts are mated in the assembly?
    Just a thought.

    Richard
     
    Richard Charney, Sep 23, 2004
    #2
  3. Zander

    Zander Guest

    Hi Richard,

    I too use configs all of the time, but this problem seems to have been
    caused by the new way that animator works, I havn't looked into it yet but
    it seems that animator is creating it's own internal config that carried old
    information with it (because it was a copied file) that when I saved to a
    edrawing it attempted to update.
     
    Zander, Sep 23, 2004
    #3
  4. Oh......Ok, I haven't played with the new animator yet. But I will be, just
    to see what I can make for the shop.
     
    Richard Charney, Sep 23, 2004
    #4
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