Hi - Can anyone tell me what the Catia v5 R19 icon next to FLEXX and FEP_ on the attached screen shot indicates please. I have tried searching Catia help and Google without any success so far.
The icon also appears when you have problems within the kinematics workbench as in my case. To be honest I have forgotten the exact details of the issue other than it was a code 23 operator error that caused me conciderable grief at the time
I've seen many problems in kinematics, but none of them actually changed a product to a flexible product. Now I am curious about your Mechanism / assembly.
if you still have problem with it, I would be interested in looking into it. Can you remove IP and share it?
You also said if was a user error. Can you help us and describe what it was so maybe we can avoid it?
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At the time I was working under a false impression of how the links in the kinematic black box worked. We use VPM/Enovia with Catia and I had been told I could not save dress-up's in VPM so I saved the kinematic black box into a Product on a local drive. I had not appreciated that I could not update the joints outside of the kinamatic black box but I could move parts around inside it. This broke some joints and I thought the icon was associated with that issue. However I think it was nothing to do with it as I still have the icon as per the screen shot but everything works and I have also discovered that I can save everything within VPM which is helpful.
I cannot recall the exact details but I think I just thought I had broken links and so did not actually try and run anything but concentrated on trying to rebuild the links. When I actually ran things it worked even though one constraint had an error flag and strangely enough that has also cleared since.
I have only worked with Catia on one system and I am not familiar with how Kinematics works under a normal set-up but basically I have a kinematic black box inside another black box that contains all the associated models that are dressed to the mechanism. The icon only appears within the overall black box and although I have not used flexible products I imagine from KevinDeSemt's link the functions have some commonality.
When I worked with VPM I remember it turning all flexible assemblies (if you had any) into rigid when you saved and re-loaded the assemblies and parts back in. Perhaps this was a customization done to avoid problems such as this? All I can say is my experience with VPM is that it is a fair system...but it really does make everything more complicated.
I am pretty sure this will be handled differently by V4 VPM compared to VPM V5. For some reason it seems a lot of companies have stayed on V4 VPM (and the information systems architecture that goes with it) to save costs or whatever I don't know but it really does generate some odd functionality issues with CATIA V5.
