Its hard to imagine what's going on here as the files not in front of us,
but before reading this post this morning and having read your last one
above it dawned on me that all is not right with the file.
I do not remember all the details or even if Kent made them public to this
NG at the time so I cant compare the two situations, but if your file is not
referencing any other file then it should survive a rebuild all. I cant
remember who said it but using rebuild in a file after every new feature ( I
normally do it after 3/4) shows up corrupted sketches etc. After two or more
years of using IV I am now spending more time rearranging sketches and
features in files so they are better at surviving changes further up the
browser Like I said I am not making a comparison with Kent's situation.
Like Darvinv's said you will have to start at the bottom of your tree of
parts and redefine sketches / workplanes as you go and fix the errors as
they appear...... as they will.
Final tip after work on your file which say is just a plain old IPT save
then rebuild all and save again before close confirms the files ultimate
integrity, safe for another day and any errors will appear then not
tomorrow.
I would have thought that even a file that contains other derived files etc
would survive rebuild all?
Maybe someone can comment? All this especially if the file(s) contain a lot
of work, good luck and I am sure that I am not the only one who would like
to get my hands on your file....looks great, we understand your
confidentiality agreement not allowing you to post, cheers.
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Laurence,
Power is nothing without Control
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"sstrik" wrote in message
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> Kent, Darvin and Laurence,
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>
> Firstly, the work around descibed by Darvin worked OK. I was able to
project the newly created axis no problems. I can't post to iCF due to
confidentiality etc.
> The file is an IPT not IAM and contains a couple of derived parts imported
as surfaces. I'll try and describe the file structure for you all.
> File 1 contains file 2 and 3 as derived surfaces.
> File 2 contains file 4 as a derived solid.
> File 3 sontains file 5 aa a derived solid.
> File 5 contains file 2 as a derived surface.
> File 1 is the file I am having the problems with.
>
> Occasionally during a rebuild most of these part seem to lose the origin
for a sketch etc, so there may infact be inherent problems in them. File 4
is a fairly complex casting with a very high number of features (around 40
or so extrusions alone, over 150 items in the browser window), i think that
this may be the problem child file.
>
> Regards
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> Steve
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