Suppressed Mates??

[djw2k3]

On occasion when I open up an assembly, a vast majority mates are sometimes suppressed. It is seemingly a random selection of mates that are unsupressed.

I can go thru and individually change suppression state. But is there something I am missing?? Can anyone point me in the right direction.

Thanks

djw SW2001+, SP6.0

 

[TheTick]

Are you sure they're actually suppressed? I've had assemblies come up with the mate icons greyed-out but still active.

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[SBaugh]

Do you have configurations in this assembly?

Are any of the parts lightwieght or suppressed when you open it?

You can change the state of the mates more than one at a time also. There is and icon in the features toolbar (you have to add it) that lets you suppress all the highlighted mates at once. I think RMB suppress works in SW03 now.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

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[MadMango]

I woud look to see if you have Configurations in your model. We had an employee about 2 years ago that totally messed up a lot of data for us. He was an AutoCAD convert, and had very little experience with SW. He was placed into a Supervisor position, and one of his main tasks was to "clean things up" on our networks and streamline our procedures.

A lot of times he deleted Supressed models and mates in Assemblies, not even understanding what Configurations were. He even deleted a bunch of archived history files, "We weren't using them for anything so I deleted them." Needless to say he left the company quickly, but not before causing major damage.

I think the stock in Bayer rose 33% that month.

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[djw2k3]

thanks for the responses,

TheTick - yeah that sounds like what I am seeing, if I RMC the mate it says its unsupressed but still greyed-out. But the objects in the FM have the little '-' sign saying they are not fully fixed etc.

Scott - all objects unsuppressed and not lightweight. yip found that handy little icon tool ;-)

MadMango - There are configurations - this could possibly have caused the problem depending on how the rest of the team set up the config properties - may have to give a wee seminar on assembly configs.

dave