assy model is still referenceing older assy's that have had xrefs brok

[borsht]

I have an assy model that is driving me nuts. When I open it in sw2003, it wants to open all the files that have been made in the process of making this assembly. Since every part in this assembly has "no" connection to any of those old parts I dont see why this is happening. Every part I've checked by opening and listing external refs, and they are all broken. the only reference to the old files is the top line of the external reference dialog box that says"Assembly: c:\xxx\xxx\xxxx\xxx\oldfile.sldasm" but under it their are no features referenced any more because i have broken them. The biggest problem with this is that at opening the file, I get 20 or more messages of "unable to locate the file c:\xxx\xxx\xxxx\oldfile.sldasm, would you like to find it yourself?" I dont wantto find it it has no worth to this file, and should have no reference to it either. Please help if possible.

 

[TheTick]

I've noticed this happens sometimes after having used a join feature. I have no explanation or solution.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I had something very similar a about 3 years ago. I had deleted a concept assy (or part) via Windows explorer without doing a "where used" in SW Explorer. I had forgotten that I had used the deleted assy in another assy & that created the type of messages you are getting.

I believe what I had to do was create a false assy of the same name & place it in the path specified. Then when the problem assy found it I simply deleted the offending assy from the current assy, resaved & the problem was gone.

from (the City of) Barrie, Ontario.

I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose

 

[borsht]

Cor-Blimey-Limey-By making a "false assy" do you mean just start an assy and save it as the name that it was looking for, in the location it was looking for it?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I believe that's what I did ... it was several years ago & the memory cells ain't what they used to be ... not that they were that great to start with.

from (the City of) Barrie, Ontario.

I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose