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Inventor 2014 "Place" button greyed out

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gunnar_larsson
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Inventor 2014 "Place" button greyed out

When opening a top assembly I have the "Place button" and can place new items into the assembly.

 

When I open a subassembly from within the top assembly, the place button is greyed out.

 

When I open the same subassembly directly, not having the top assembly loaded, the place button is back again.

 

This is a new fenomenon for 2014 and I cannot figure out why the place button suddenly greyes out.

I do not run Vault client although it was installed. The problem remains after having uninstalled the Vault client.

 

Please help.

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Message 2 of 7
cbenner
in reply to: gunnar_larsson
Message 3 of 7
Cadmanto
in reply to: gunnar_larsson

Are you running the latest SP of 2014?

This may be an a known issue.  You might want to check the list under SP 1.0 to see if it is listed.

 

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mikejones
in reply to: gunnar_larsson

I assume the sub assembly inside of the top level is not set as a shrinkwrap is it?

 

Mike

Autodesk Certified Professional
Message 5 of 7
gunnar_larsson
in reply to: mikejones

Ahh, no.

But I had a position rep activated in the subassy.

Case solved. Thanks for Your replies.

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SER4
in reply to: gunnar_larsson

Thanks for the reason why it doesn't work (and therefore the fix)…now can someone give the explanation why we can't insert parts while the assembly is in a positional representation?

Dell Precision 5680 Laptop; Win11 Pro; 64GB RAM; i9-13900H CPU; Intel Iris Xe Graphics, NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Laptop GPU.
Vault Pro 2023.4.1 (28.4.20.0); Inventor Pro 2023.4.1 (418).
Message 7 of 7

Hi! In short, this is a limitation in PosRep. When a non-Master PosRep is active, the components' position is overridden. Most of the modeling commands are disabled and any structural change is prohibited. Adaptive is suspended. Also the iam file cannot be saved with non-Master PosRep active. Essentially, any operation which can lead to change in component geometry is blocked. I wish these limitations did not exist though.

Many thanks!

 



Johnson Shiue (johnson.shiue@autodesk.com)
Software Test Engineer

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