Adaptive part fails in positional representation

[milesB]

Good day,

Please have a look at the attached 2011 assembly file. The cylinder part has been mated to a plane in the asembly, it is adaptive and this works fine until you modify the position of the plane in a positional representation.... Error

I only need to do this for layout purposes, think of a crane hook shown in different positions, It doesn't make much sense if you can't see the wire. Any work arounds / alternatives will do.

Cheers Guys

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Peter,

The adaptive behavior has not been changed. For one given part, it can only be adaptive within one assembly. All occurrences or instances of the part have the same shape (or length).

I think what you want to do might be related to our in-development project, called Alternative Representations. It allows a part to have more than one geometric definition. If you are interested, please sign up Inventor Beta (https://bit.ly/InventorBeta), where you can try the latest build in an install-free/browser environment. And, give feedback to the project teams.

Many thanks!