Hi everyone,
I have a medium sized assembly that I was working with. I decided I needed to create a weldment, so I stripped the assembly of all subassemblies, individual parts, etc and saved it as a different name. However, Inventor will not allow me to convert it to a weldment. That optoin is greyed out.
The only thing I can think of is I have a base part that I have hidden. It is used to drive the assembly. Perhaps that is causing a problem, but I cannot remove it or all associativity will be lost. I deleted it temporarily to try, but did not save it. The conver to weldment option did not appear after I deleted it.
Any ideas?
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Possibly try demoting the items to a new sub assembly and then convert it to a weldment. You could have done this in the main assembly. Just RMB on one of the part you wish to use in the weldment. It will then create a new IAM and push the parts into that new IAM while maintaining their constraints and location.
Blair,
Thank you for the suggestion! Please pardon my ignorance, but how can I demote them to a new subassembly?
What does RMB stand for?
Thank you!
RMB: Right Mouse Button.
Simply select one of the items you wish to demote into the new sub assembly. Then RMB on it, a popup menu will appear, select Demote. The dialogue will then ask for a new file name and a new sub assembly in the main IAM will be created. Drag the other IPT's to this new iam in the browser window.
I believe this can be caused by having Positional Representations in the model. PosReps and Weldments don't like each other - they are mutually exclusive.
Check to see if you have any Positional Representations in your assembly - if you do, delete them and see if that lets you convert.
Thanks guys! The positional representations were causing the problem!
Next time, I will use the demotion trick!
Thanks!