Just curious: Anyone know the difference between a 'force rebuild' (ctrl-Q) and a regular rebuild (ctrl-B or on the menu or the traffic signal looking button)? A force rebuild seems to be more thorough, as the name would suggest...if I have something that doesn't respond to a regular rebuild a force rebuild usually does the trick. A force rebuild isn't as publicized either (I stumbled upon it in the API). I pretty much do all my rebuilds now as a force rebuild (easy left hand command vs mouse clicking).
So what is the difference to Solidworks between the two?
So what is the difference to Solidworks between the two?
The true force rebuild comes only from the API as far as I know. CTRL+Q rebuilds ONLY THE TOP LEVEL of asm's. It does not rebuild "down into" sub asm's etc. Now, if you do some reading on rebuild in the API you will see that by using a macro you can get a "true" force rebuild. That will rebuild EVERYTHING. CTRL+Q is nice. However, for flaked out models, and "funny mate problems" it is not as good of a solver as a macro rebuilding everything in the file. Following is my "force rebuild" macro. CTRL+Q does the same thing however, the boolean would be true instead of false when you use a CTRL+Q.