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lin pattern of flexible subassembly

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Yogibear

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Sep 5, 2002
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I'm trying to do a linear pattern of a flexible subassembly and am not getting the results that I should. I've called my var and they are having the same issues. I've tried this in 04 and 05 SP 0.0. I was wondering if someone has found a good work around.
What we have is a subassembly with 3 wire connectors in it. What we've done is not put in any mates that way we can mate it in the main assembly. Everything works fine except when I try to do a linear pattern. The thing I don't understand is it preview's fine but when I accept it the results are not what I expected. It does a linear pattern of where the part was originally inserted into the assembly.
Hope this makes sense. Thanks in advance.
 
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Make the parts into a sub-assembly and place "X" amount of those sub-assembly in the main assembly and don't use a Linear pattern. Because if the preview is fine but the result isn't then I"m sure there is not going to be an easy workaround for this, because I'm sure that's a bug.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP [pc2]
3DVision Technologies
faq731-376
faq559-716 - SW Fora Users
 
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Any insight on when Solidworks will have a fix for this. We are in need for it. The down fall of inserting and mating each of those sub-assemblies is we could quickly add up as many as 81 mates just to place in the wires for a manifold.
 
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I can't say it's a bug or not because i have never come across it, but I was saying I'm willing to bet it is a bug.

When it gets fixed... that's hard to say because it varies on a few things. If you have a workaround like you do above, no matter how painful it is, it's still a workaround. With that in mind you can't get the issue escalated through your VAR.

The other thing is the more people that turn in the issue to their VAR then the higher up the ladder it goes. When it gets enough hits then it will be looked at and repaired. But since there is a workaround for your issue I don't think it will be repaired in a matter of time that you need it, unless this issue was found earlier then now and they plan to fix in a later SP of 05.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP [pc2]
3DVision Technologies
faq731-376
faq559-716 - SW Fora Users
 
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