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.
Post a screen shot of both the top level and sub level, with the Place button showing as well as your assembly browser window.
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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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I assume the sub assembly inside of the top level is not set as a shrinkwrap is it?
Mike
Ahh, no.
But I had a position rep activated in the subassy.
Case solved. Thanks for Your replies.
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?
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!
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