Assembly Browser Reorder

[Anonymous]

OK, I admit I have been away from the CAD software for awhile and am
somewhat rusty.

I am working with Inventor 7 and am trying to reorder the parts in an
assembly on my browser. The help screen sayts to drag the item and drop it
in the position desired. My browser will not work with this. Am I missing
something? I looked thru some old posts and found a reference to using sub
assemblies to do this. I tried it and it works but if I decide to make
another change I need to go thru the same routine. Surely Autodesk has not
made this that difficult.

Tom travis

[Anonymous]

That's funny....I didn't know the Help still said it was able to do
this...anyway, Adesk broke this when programming Assembly Features. I will be
back in next release. In the meantime, use Kathy J. 's workaround:
"Make a dummy assembly and place your working assembly in as the first and
ground. Now place your components into the dummy assembly. Don't constrain.
Now Drag and Drop them into your working assembly at the point in the browser
that you want (they won't end up at the bottom of the list). Now edit your
working assembly and constrain."

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Dave Jacquemotte
Automation Designer

[Anonymous]

There has not been a definite statement saying it would be in the next
release. Only that it would be in a future version.

[Anonymous]

Ok, ok....your right. I just figured it would be, since Gary (Autodesk) said he
has seen it working.

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Dave Jacquemotte
Automation Designer

[Anonymous]

Careful about putting words in Gary's mouth Dave. I've done it before and Gary doesn't like it (I can't blame him). B-)

MechMan

[Anonymous]

From Re: Reordering Assembly Browser 5/29/03:

"> WHEN is the problem.

I've seen it working again in our internal builds.

G"


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Dave Jacquemotte
Automation Designer

[Anonymous]

I was referring to the "will be back in next release" statement, not the "working again in our internal builds" statement. I once made a "will be back in next release" statement and Gary was kind enough to correct my wording. B-)

MechMan

[Anonymous]

Your right. But if you look real close, I said "I will be back in next release."
Not IT. See, I was referring to me. So there!

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Dave Jacquemotte
Automation Designer

[Anonymous]

LOL, yea I saw that. I never knew you had left R7.



That's why I started my quoteback with "will...". See, there I go again. Now I was putting words in YOUR mouth. Boy this is a bad habbit I have. B-)



MechMan

[Anonymous]

Thanks to all for the replies. Sorry to stir up the pot on the subject. I
will use Kathy's method for now. I wsa hoping the fix was already in but
will wait patiently for it.


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> Your right. But if you look real close, I said "I will be back in next
release."
> Not IT. See, I was referring to me. So there!
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> Dave Jacquemotte
> Automation Designer
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