Ghost parts left behind

[doc1955]

Has anyone else experienced ghost parts left behind when switching arrangements.
Our N/C group keeps having clamps left behind when switching arrangements. I have placed multiple arrangements within the assembly file to show the clamp locations and locator and the like. Every now and then when they switch they will get a facet body left behind of a clamp or other component that was moved to the new location.
Anyway its driving me nuts trying to figure out why this is happening.
I’m using NX 5.041 mp1 on windows xp on a 64 bit platform with 8gig of ram


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[uwam2ie]

... I hope your graphic system is ok.
delete the facet reference set in the master parts and let them recreate with a new save

 

[JohnRBaker]

When you say 'ghost components' are you also referring to their appearance as being translucent when the rest of the model is opaque? If so, it's possible that someone created a 'Product Outline' of your assembly when some other Arrangement was active and you've accidentally toggled ON the 'Show Product Outline' (it's an icon on the Assemblies tool bar).

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[doc1955]

John,
No they are solid I mean ghost in the sense that they remain when they should be gone. I usually tell them to just delete them. They only exist in their file and do not reside in the assembly file where the original component resides. It is as though there is a facet created from the assembly file into their n/c file.




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[hudson888]

Does Part cleanup do anything?

Otherwise try going into Assemblies>Advanced>Representations and deleting all the faceted bodies, just to see whether anything happens as a result.

Lastly maybe it is a graphics thing and just changing views usually clears most of those things up.

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[doc1955]

That is what I have the n/c people do right now to get rid of them. I just wanted to know if anyone else has had this problem. It's easy to correct just real annoying. When it creates the facet body and I have them delete it it's gone. It shows up on some of the parts when we go from one arrangement to another and the part being suppressed by the arrangement creates a facet in the top assembly. The arrangement is in the sub assembly so I don't understand why it wants to create a facet in the top assembly.

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