Component Replacement Misallignment

[TomFin]

Greetings Again Everyone

I have an assy of sub-assys and components. I'd like to replace sub-assy "A" with a sub-assy "B". A & B are almost identical sub-assys. Upon my first attempt of Replace components, B ended up almost in the twilight zone without error messages might I add. So I compared A&B and found the fundamental planes Front/Top/Back had dissimilar positions relative to each sub-assy. So I changed the mates of B so that the origin and planes of B coincided with the same faces as A.
Now upon inserting B into my main assy, B is inline with the desired position, but flipped upside down. I double checked the consistency of the origin and planes between A&B. I assumed that ReplaceComponents positions the new part by the planes.
Any advice ?



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[CorBlimeyLimey]

A component which replaces another should assume the same mate references as the replaced one ... assuming those references exist in the new component.

If you click on the relevant mate, the features being referenced should be highlighted in the graphics area.

You may be lucky and just have to use the Flip Alignment function. If not you will need to re-define the mates.

 

[TomFin]

Basically I figured out my problem and wish I read CBs thread first 'cause that is essentially what the problem was.

Tiling the view windows of A & B after I repositioned the planes made the two sub-assy planes appear congruent which was why I was so perplexed. My mistake was I mated the faces of B to the fundamental planes only so they (A&B) look identical in regard to origin orientation. When mating one of the faces of B to the Top/Bottom plane I ignored the fact that the plane does have 2 separate faces. So without much ado I re-mated 2 of the faces to the opposite sides of 2 of the fundamental planes. Confused yet?


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