Mating solidbodies

[copprfiveo]

Long time user, first time poster...

I've imported customer parts from STEP files, and I'm trying to place them into my assembly. If I use any of the imported faces for mates, the next time I open the assembly, all those mates have errors.

Just started for a new company, using SW2012. My previous company used 2010, and can't seem to remember this problem.

 

[Eltron]

Have you saved all of the step files as parts first?

Dan

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[copprfiveo]

The files have been saved as parts.

The design is to nest these parts on a table. Since there's 100+ part files, I don't really want to do feature recognition. Which leaves just a simple "Imported1" feature in the part tree.

If I use any part of the model for mating, it will error the next time I open the assembly.

 

[JMirisola]

What's the lesser of two evils, having errors every time you open up the assembly or running feature recognition? You can have feature recognition only recognize extrudes so that, hopefully, your faces won't keep puking on you and it should speed up the process.

Jeff Mirisola
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[mjcole]

You should be able to position the parts without mates then create a single Lock mate to lock them all relative to each other by just selecting the parts. The parts can then be positioned as a group And will move as if mated together.

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

copprfiveo,

To state the obvious ... that shouldn't be happening! What error message is given?
Does the problem still occur with STEP files created on your computer?

Can you ZIP & post a small sample assy, or at least a couple of the STEP files to test on other systems.

 

[rollupswx]

Did you run quality check on the parts (you don't have to run feature recognition to run the quality check).