very strange error: please check out instance & try again

[lylebeidler]

WF3 m160, Intralink 3.4 m030

I'm experiencing a very strange problem that I've never had before. I have
a family table, numbering several dozens of instances. I need to make a
change to one, and so I check out the generic, and all of its instances, to
my workspace. I open the generic in pro/e, and make the change to the
table. Verify all. Everything so far is just fine.

However, when I attempt to save the generic, I get this error:







(if the picture doesn't come through: "torflex12 Please check out these
instance(s) and save again."



I've seen this error before, but here's the weird thing: torflex12 is the
generic I'm saving. It is definitely checked out! Any idea what's going on
here?

Thanks.



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Lyle Beidler
MGS Inc
178 Muddy Creek Church Rd
Denver PA 17517
717-336-7528
Fax 717-336-0514
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[prashantkisanpa]

Hi Lyle,

Following are the views for the issue faced by you, not all may be
applicable to the issues that you are facing.

Whether "torflex12" was standalone part earlier & then it was converted to
generic.
As you can see in the window the symbol of "torflex12" is not shown as a
generic or instance symbol.

Also, even though "torflex12" is a generic for some instances, it can also
be instance of some generic, i guess that's the reason it is treating
"torflex12" as an instance ( as there is parent generic associated to this
instance or in the past there might have been parent generic associated to
this instance).

Regards,
Prashant

[lylebeidler]

For a minute I thought you might be on to something - we have some family
tables around that used to be nested, but have since been broken apart into
standalone models. I thought this might be one of them. It is not.



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Lyle Beidler
MGS Inc
178 Muddy Creek Church Rd
Denver PA 17517
717-336-7528
Fax 717-336-0514
<">mailto:-> -
<">http://www.mgsincorporated.com>

[lylebeidler]

I ran across this error again today, and remembered that I had hit it once before.

The resolution was to check the instance out to a new workspace, and re-did the work, and the problem disappeared. (the previous workspace was where I had checked out the entire top-level assembly).

Very strange.

In Reply to Lyle Beidler:

WF3 m160, Intralink 3.4 m030

I'm experiencing a very strange problem that I've never had before. I have
a family table, numbering several dozens of instances. I need to make a
change to one, and so I check out the generic, and all of its instances, to
my workspace. I open the generic in pro/e, and make the change to the
table. Verify all. Everything so far is just fine.

However, when I attempt to save the generic, I get this error:







(if the picture doesn't come through: "torflex12 Please check out these
instance(s) and save again."



I've seen this error before, but here's the weird thing: torflex12 is the
generic I'm saving. It is definitely checked out! Any idea what's going on
here?

Thanks.



--



Lyle Beidler
MGS Inc
178 Muddy Creek Church Rd
Denver PA 17517
717-336-7528
Fax 717-336-0514
< -
< http://www.mgsincorporated.com