IPart Features Dissapear when Published

[Jaychale]

The attached IPart works wonderfully for all sizes, shows no errors or recovery alerts.

The problem is that once it is published, the ORB end changes for any size 1/2" (8) or under.

It just turns into a Hex head, I don't understand what the problem is.

Any ideas?

[cbenner]

Hi.

Please always post the version of Inventor you are using.  I can see this is 2014 version, some of us are still on older versions and cannot open your part.  By posting the version, those people who are best able to help you will know right away.

[Jaychale]

Check, 2014.

[Cadmanto]

Just curious.  Before you publish these parts to the CC, you say they work fine.  That means all of the members of the factory file are generated and when you insert each of these members into an assembly they all show the table allowing you to select which one you need without flaw?

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[Jaychale]

To the first part, yes, I scrolled through every version through the table and the fitting looks correct, shows no errors.

To the second, I'm not sure how I could insert a part into an assembly without first publishing it.

Sorry, I'm new at iParts

[Cadmanto]

That's fine.  They don't have to be published in order to use them in an assembly.

I have published before and the original as it was before you published should still be on your local.

With that, create a dummy assembly.  Then insert this factory file (from your local) into this assembly and you will see what I am talking about in my first posting.

See if they insert of that way.  If they don't then the error is in your file and not the CC.

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[Jaychale]

Ok, Yes the factory file works from within an assembly on the affected parts.

[Jaychale]

Ok so here side by side is the exact same part, one being the factory, the other published and placed from content center

[Cadmanto]

Correct me if I am wrong, but looking at your browser in the assembly it looks as though your part started from the CC.

Did you create a new part using an original from the CC to start?  If that is the case, no wonder why it is giving you grief.  There is still a link to the CC when this is done.

You are better off creating a similar part from scratch with no ties to the CC to start.

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[Jaychale]

I have no idea, I downloaded it.

There are about 12 other parts that came with it that work just fine.

[Cadmanto]

It only takes one.

You do realize that you cannot place assemblies in the CC, right?

I would be willing to bet that if you created a brand new ipart from scratch and published it, you would not see this issue.  Try it.  You can always delete it out of the CC.  I am thinking that this one part originally came from the CC and it is having issues because of that.

Are you also placing these specially created parts in your own folder within the CC?

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[Jaychale]

They are in a custom CC, most of the parts are published into the tubing folders under the applicable categories

And yes none of the parts are assemblies

[Cadmanto]

Try an experiment for me.  Create a random part from scratch and make it an ipart factory.  Generate the members and publish that to the CC and see if you can repeat this behavior.

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[Jaychale]

I'd already been working on that for most of the day, but this has raised a new issue, All my parts are happy as clams in the factory, but again once I publish it, I get "Place fitting Failed"

[Jaychale]

So... any thoughts on what is actually wrong with the part?

[lesmfunk]

I know what went wrong. The publishing process does not retain the precision of the factory parameters.

Look at your family table in the content center. There will be a value of 0 for one or more of the parameters. For example, In the factory, the values might range from 0.030 to 0.050. The 0.050 values round to 0.1 but the 0.035 values round to 0. That's why some features fail and some don't. It is trying to extrude a distance of 0. And all other subsequent features built on that extrusion fail as well.

This can be manually repaired in the Content Center Library Family Table.

Does anyone know how to get the ipart publishing process to retain the precision of the original parameters?