Place & Ground Bug Still Not Fixed?

[tdswanson]

Hey everyone:

There's another post out there about this issue I think, but the check box in the application settings (assembly tab) that says "place and ground first component" doesn't stay enabled.  Seems like this issue has been out there for a long time, and going back to recheck it several times each week has grown tiresome.

Does anyone have a macro or some iLogic code to band-aid this?  Is there a fix for this scheduled?

[blair]

The other issue posted was with using the Copy function to place the first component.

[tdswanson]

Hmm. I must have missed that. Well, to clarify, my issue is that I have to go to >>Application Settings>>Assembly and check "Place and Ground First Component at Origin" often. Like every other day at minimum. I could be wrong about this, but I think this came up in v2013 and has been there ever since.

Thx

[4donwan4]

I started up 2014 Inventor and then the initial setting was unchecked in the Application Options>Assembly tab. I checked it, applied the settings. Closed Inventor and restarted Inventor then went back into the Application options after starting a new assembly file and the setting was checked for me. Not sure whats occurring on your station.

Regards,

Don

[MikahB]

I have exactly the same issue. It's a bit annoying.

[tdswanson]

Don - Thanks for looking into this.  I've been unable to identify what the trigger is to change the setting.  I can apply this setting and it will work fine, for some amount of time.  At some point later, I'll start a new assembly file and the first component will not be grounded.  I'll go to the settings tab and the box will then be unchecked.

But unfortunately, I've been unable to see a pattern of WHEN or WHY that setting gets changed.

Thanks!

[Curtis_Waguespack]

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@tdswanson wrote:

But unfortunately, I've been unable to see a pattern of WHEN or WHY that setting gets changed.

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Hi tdswanson,

Would the setting reverting back happen to coincide with a crash? In the past I've known some Application Options to reset when Inventor experiences an unexpected shut down. Maybe just something to keep an eye out for going forward to see if there is a connection to crashing.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[tdswanson]

I've wondered about that, but honestly, Inventor is pretty stable.  Totally guessing here, but I probably only get a crash maybe every other week and it seems like I have to reset this setting every other day.

I'll be watching for it more closely now....

[MikahB]

I'm positive that's not the issue on my end. I rarely have an Inventor crash but this problem is consistently there.

[Ryan.Martinez]

I've noticed while using a network seat of inventor, if the license server goes down or gets rebooted your app. options will reset to default.

[tdswanson]

That's an interesting twist.  I normally operate a single stand-alone seat at my desk.  But we do have a few installations that use a single-user network license as well.

[Ryan.Martinez]

Yeah has not happened to me since I moved to stand alone. Still happens to my coworkers on network licenses though.

[MikahB]

My license is and always has been stand-alone, so definitely not a network-license only issue.  I'll start trying to figure out how to reproduce it here.

[BeKirra]

I have experienced the same issue occasionally (these also happened in previous versions).

In most of the time there were no crashes when it happened.

I also noticed that I had some big iam files opened or had some other big programs running at the time.

The option to the users end may be that create an "ApplicationOptions" setting backup by export it in "Options".

So you can import this backup when something happens unexceptionally.

HTH

[Kent.Wold]

I am getting the same error. At first I thought it was when we were making changes in Vault in the background but that does not seem to be it now. Some days I don't have to check the box and others I do. Most of the time it lasts all day and I have not noticed that crashes affect the issue.
Has there been a bug fix?

[exSWX]

looks like the problem STILL exists in 2015 

[AlexeyN]

And in 2016 too!

I have the same bug in all versions from 2014 to 2016. And it is NOT linked with Inventor crashes. I've checked it right now (killed the task in task manager).

It is very annoying!

[Kent.Wold]

I have had this issue for a long time now and it hasn't gone away. 

I have learned to work it around by right clicking when placing the first piece and selecting "Place Grounded at Origin" which accomplishes the same thing. Just more mouse clicks....

[AlexeyN]

Thanks a lot for this workaround)) will use it too

[Kent.Wold]

Thank you for the kudos it has been helpful for me for sure!