Adaptivity

[Anonymous]

I have a cambox that contains several sub assemblies three of which are
adaptive
one of these contains a sub sub assembly which is also adaptive.

when I place the cambox into its parent assembly I can not make this
adaptive as it is greyed out.

I have tried to reduce the adaptivity to a minimum and this is it.

are there any issues with the number of levels that can contain adaptivity I
have tried some simple tests and these work fine
however this model is not.

Cheers

Dave

[Anonymous]

Dave,

Edit the assembly you're trying to make adaptive and go to Tools>Document
settings. In the modeling tab, does the checkbox "Adaptively used in
assembly" have a check in it? If so, Inventor thinks the assy is already
used adaptively elsewhere, and you can't adapt something in more places than
one... (search the word "quantum" in this NG for the reasons)...

Uncheck... wait, you're in the UK, so I can use the word "tick", I
believe... unTICK the box and you should be right.

Adaptivity doesn't have a maximum number of levels it can use, as far as I
know. Personally I almost never use it. Skeletal sketching all the way...

Col.

[Anonymous]

Cheers

it was adaptive elswhere but where and why i am usure as knowone admits
responsabilty.






"Colin Fink" wrote in message
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> Dave,
>
> Edit the assembly you're trying to make adaptive and go to Tools>Document
> settings. In the modeling tab, does the checkbox "Adaptively used in
> assembly" have a check in it? If so, Inventor thinks the assy is already
> used adaptively elsewhere, and you can't adapt something in more places
than
> one... (search the word "quantum" in this NG for the reasons)...
>
> Uncheck... wait, you're in the UK, so I can use the word "tick", I
> believe... unTICK the box and you should be right.
>
> Adaptivity doesn't have a maximum number of levels it can use, as far as I
> know. Personally I almost never use it. Skeletal sketching all the way...
>
> Col.
>
>

[Anonymous]

Dave,

It may be that no one was repsonsible. As fate would have it an assembly we were working on crashed. Called it back up and some of the components were no longer adaptive and were greyed out. Also check box or tick box was selected. Unchecked the box and were good to go again.

Rick

[Anonymous]

It can also happen if you mark a file adaptive and
then delete it from an assembly *without* un-adapting it, then reinserting
it.

The checkbox doesn't actually KNOW whether the file
is used adaptively somewhere or not, it just turns on when you turn adaptivity
on, and off when you turn it off. So in the case of a crash it can be incorrect,
and if you delete it from an assembly (which doesn't turn it off) and reinsert
it it will be "stuck on"...

Meaning you have to use the fix I
mentioned...

Everybody asks that question once 🙂

Col.

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Dave,

It may be that no one was repsonsible. As fate would have it an assembly we
were working on crashed. Called it back up and some of the components were no
longer adaptive and were greyed out. Also check box or tick box was selected.
Unchecked the box and were good to go again.

Rick

[Anonymous]

I do suffer from crashes with reasonable frequency
one of the side affects of very large models (memory usage 1.7gig) and a large
shared environment.

Thanks for the advice

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It can also happen if you mark a file adaptive
and then delete it from an assembly *without* un-adapting it, then reinserting
it.

The checkbox doesn't actually KNOW whether the
file is used adaptively somewhere or not, it just turns on when you turn
adaptivity on, and off when you turn it off. So in the case of a crash it can
be incorrect, and if you delete it from an assembly (which doesn't turn it
off) and reinsert it it will be "stuck on"...

Meaning you have to use the fix I
mentioned...

Everybody asks that question once 🙂

Col.

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Dave,

It may be that no one was repsonsible. As fate would have it an assembly
we were working on crashed. Called it back up and some of the components
were no longer adaptive and were greyed out. Also check box or tick box was
selected. Unchecked the box and were good to go again.

Rick