Inventor 2014 - copy - paste of Frame Generator Part means you can't delete it

[dandoleman]

Hi there,

I have noticed this odd behaviour: see attached video.

If you want to re-use a Frame Generator member in ANOTHER assembly to save creating more files you might want to use copy-paste.

If you do then you find you can't delete this member or other ones that have been copy-pasted into that assembly.

Oddly enough if you use "place component" you CAN delete it.

I am using Inventor Professional 2014 Service Pack 1 Update 1.

Any ideas would be helpful as a customer of mine is also experiencing this problem.

Thanks

Dan

[dandoleman]

Apologies, I couldn't attach the video, so here is a dropbox link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dpvtjhtc4x2re9t/Inventor%202014%20Frame%20Gen%20Delete.wmv

Dan

[cbenner]

Not sure of the cause of this, but I have noticed this behavior with other Content Center parts.  They do not react well to copy/paste functionality.  In Tube & Pipe it is the same thing.  I hate to sound like the old Dr. joke (Dr. it hurts when I do this... Then don't do that.)... but that seems to be the fix.  Just don't copy and paste Content Center items in an assembly or between assemblies.  Besides, where Frame Generator is concerned, trust me, it is beneficial to have your members be unique parts from one assembly to the next.

[dandoleman]

It is my customer who is really suffering because of this issue, they've been able to do this in all past releases so I'm not going to tell them to stop doing something they've always been able to do. It worked for them up until now and is clearly a 2014 bug.

Dan

[dandoleman]

Hi I notice this has got an escalated icon next to it now, is there any update on this please?

[LeanderTorres]

I have found a way to delete the items out of your assembly.

Select all the items, right click, then component , then demote.

You can delete the newly created assembly.

This aint a fix but it gets it done.

Kind regards,

Leander Torres Falcato Simoes

[dandoleman]

Thanks for the response, I will have a go and get my customer to try that too.

It sounds like a fix for now.

Cheers

Dan

[ken_kaiser]

Same problem here.

The suggested work around is a messy one.  Don't like it.

We are also on SP1 update 2.