Project geometry in *.iam

[jurgen_eco]

Hi,

When I project some edges from one part to another part in an iam the lines don't update when the "reference" part is changed. Do I miss something here? Because it took me an hour to fix all the errors about missing geometry. At the end Inventor trow me out AGAIN (jeeez that was not a surpize). So now I can restart AGAIN. But I wan't to know the use of project geometry in an assembly. Otherwise I sketch the part and do not use the project stuff anymore in an iam. But hey, where's the productivity then?

Adaptivity is no option anymore to me, I'm sick of that cross-part-section-has-failed-error

Kind regards.

[Anonymous]

You probably need to have Cross Part Association active. The option is in
Tools/AppOps/Assembly; Under the Cross Part Projection section there is a
check-box. It can either be checked or unchecked to have it on all the time
(checked) or only active with Ctrl (unchecked). Assuming it's unchecked, use
"Ctrl LMB" and the projected geometry should be associative.
~Larry

"jurgen_eco" wrote in message
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> Hi,
> When I project some edges from one part to another part in an iam the
lines don't update when the "reference" part is changed. Do I miss something
here? Because it took me an hour to fix all the errors about missing
geometry. At the end Inventor trow me out AGAIN (jeeez that was not a
surpize). So now I can restart AGAIN. But I wan't to know the use of project
geometry in an assembly. Otherwise I sketch the part and do not use the
project stuff anymore in an iam. But hey, where's the productivity then?
>
> Adaptivity is no option anymore to me, I'm sick of that
cross-part-section-has-failed-error
>
> Kind regards.
>

[Anonymous]

I posted a similar question last week (
size=2>"Project Geometry" Question..., 10/23/2003) and found out that if
the parts are in different sub-assemblies, there is no associativity maintained
between the projected geometry (which was colored pink) and the original
part.  Quinn offered a workaround that I haven't tried yet, but it sounds
like it could work depending on your circumstances.

Blane