MATES GOING MAD

WHEN I TRANSFER ASSEMBLIES INTO 2007 OR 64 BIT 2007 IT CHANGESTHE
DISTANCE MATES IN VARIOUS CONFIGURATIONS. THE SUGGESTED FIX FROM SOLID
WORKS WAS TO DELETE ALL THE MATES AND START AGAIN. SOME FIX WHEN YOU
HAVE A LARGE AMOUNT OF CONFIGURATIONS NOT TO MENTION OVER 1000 PARTS.
HAS ANYONE ELSE HAD THIS OR SIMILAR PROBLEMS?

 

Hi John,

don´t you think it´s legitimate to shout when SolidWorks Corp. delivers such
a bull....
and especially when you receive a completely useless help to start from the
scratch ???

my 2 ct

JOJO

 

I don't think that is a fix and I don't think you should have to do it.


Can you tell us more about what exactly causes this because we haven't
heard about this before and 2007 has been out a while.

 

Some at our company have seen similar problems with mates flipping
between configurations. That is in sp0, haven't gone to sp1 yet.
(Don't ask) The "automatic mate solver" flips mates before you have a
chance to suppress/check for mates you know are wrong. Pretty much
completely frustrating.

 

Hi,

Yep had same problem, did an Rx and sent to my VAR who sent to
Solidworks ,the fix is being implemented in SP2.0.
This mate flipping completely messed up all my configurations, I lost a
weeks worth of work some of which I am redoing right now.

Stay in 2006 or you will have to make individual assemblies for each
configuration, which as i told my VAR defeats the point of
configuration creation and management.

Deleting and fixing mates doesn't work I've tried it, what happens is
that the orientation of the part is flipped in distance mates in
different configurations ,so it doesn't matter whether you rebuild or
not , this is a problem with the software not your assemblies.

Cheers Mo.