Defer mates in SW 2006?

[Philrock]

I recently upgraded from 2001 plus to 2006. 2001 plus had "Defer mates," which I found very helpful. I don't see this in 2006. Am I missing something? Has something else taken its place?

 

[SolidAir]

Philrock,

They have been gone since SW2003 if memory serves me correctly. Do not think anything took its place.

SA

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

De-selecting the Preview option in the Mate Manager has the same/similar effect.

I prefer to take the small hit in performance and know the mate is correct at the time of creating it, rather than trying to find and sort out an unseen error after an update/rebuild.

 

[handleman]

If you're looking to avoid the performance hit you can try the three mating macros (Coincident, Parallel, and Concentric) in thread559-175155. I believe the performance hit you're trying to avoid comes from loading the property manager. The reason for it is that SW evaluates your selections for each possible mate to decide which types of mates to gray out. These macros assume you are competent enough to know what type of mate you want prior to running them, so if your selections are inappropriate (2 flat faces for concentric, for instance) the macro will just give you a general failure message.

 

[Philrock]

I'm not concerned about any kind of performance hit. What sometimes happens though, is that even though your parts may look close together on screen, they are not, and when you implement your 1st mate, one of the parts zips off into the ozone, and you have to zoom out to find it, move it closer to final position, and re-orient the viewpoint, before making any more mates.

 

[AnnaWood]

I believe toggling the 'Mate Preview' checkbox in the Property Manager will defer the mate being created.

See image file....

http://visualvault.auerprecision.com/ViewFile.aspx?DlID=56fa8a8c-810a-4696-986b-8fef4168429c

Regards,

Anna Wood
SW07 SP2.1, WinXP
Dell Precision 380, Pentium D940, 4 Gigs RAM, FX3450
WD Raptors, 1 Gb network connection

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/solidmuse

 

[AnnaWood]

That should be 'Show Preview' toggle....

Regards,

Anna Wood
SW07 SP2.1, WinXP
Dell Precision 380, Pentium D940, 4 Gigs RAM, FX3450
WD Raptors, 1 Gb network connection

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/solidmuse