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1-Visitor
October 2, 2014
Question

Losing Mechanism functions

  • October 2, 2014
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We are experiencing some weird issues with Mechanism lately. It seems that randomly (we can't find a reason) we will lose the ability to "drag components" in our assemblies. For example we use a lot of clamps and we like to be able to open and close them in the model to check for interferences. But sometimes we lose the ability to drag components that were constrained with Mechanism. Attached is an image of the error that we get, when you click continue it opens the "drag" box, but you are unable to actually drag any of the components. The only way we have found to fix this is restart Creo.

Mech+error.jpg

Has anyone had this happen before and does anyone have any ideas what is causing this?


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17-Peridot
October 2, 2014

I've seen this all too often when I finally corrected this with snapshops and enabling regen values in the constraint definition.

1-Visitor
October 3, 2014

Do you know what is causing this? Can you give some details about what it is you do to work around this error?

23-Emerald IV
October 3, 2014

We have this happen all the time when dragging. It's like the software can't keep up with all the different changes that need to happen everywhere and things become disconnected. We've adopted the approach of adding a motor, running an analysis, then simply playing the analysis back and forth instead of dragging.