Parts in Assembly Don't Regenerate

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I have a recurring issue in which parts in assemblies don't update. I'll have the assembly open, as well as a PartA. I make some changes to PartA. I can't get those changes to update in the assembly. Regenerate has no effect. The only way I can get the PartA to update in the assembly is by saving PartA, closing the assembly and reopening it. Any ideas what's going on here?

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Steve,

It seems your advice about opening file from within Creo solves this problem. If I open the latest versions of PartA and the assembly from file explorer, regenerate doesn't work. But, if I open those files from within Creo, everything updates as it should.

Thanks so much! This has been driving me crazy.

StephenW

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It shouldn't happen. Is it repeatable on other assemblies or just one?

Can you share your files or make a test assembly/parts to share that have the problem.

Occasionally on merge/inheritance models, I have seen the issue where regenerate didn't work, but I haven't seen it on normal parts/assemblies. On those models, I typically drag the insert here all the way up the model tree and drop it, then drag it back down to the bottom to force a regen or I use the model player under TOOLS and click the rengerate features toggle to force a regen of everything.

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It's mildly inconsistent, but I'd say it happens on 95% of assemblies I'm working on. There have only been a few times when parts regenerated successfully.

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I realized another detail that may be related, I'm not sure. Most times when I save a part, it saves as seen in the image attached below. When I go to open that part (the last one, without the Creo icon) I always have to select Creo Parametric as the program to open the file. Could this be related in any way?

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