How to find unconstrained components/broken joints when you have several hundred joints?

[john.steensen]

Hey all. Looking for ways to find unconstrained components/broken joints when you have several hundred joints and subassemblies.

No joints appear broken (yellow symbol).

Left console, looking right as rain:

Top level assembly showing something is NOT right with the left console:

With left console hidden: (Couple right console small things I can quickly fix.)

[jeff_strater]

there is no command to do this (although that would be a good idea).  I would suppress any grounded components, and try to drag the whole thing.  Any components left behind need to have joints added.  You can undo the move (or Revert) once you have identified the free components.

[john.steensen]

Agreed. I would really like to see either a command or an hideable icon on the browser showing unconstrained parts.

I found a rigid group in the console structure subassembly. Deleting it and manually jointing the 60 or so parts seems to have resolved it. I'm curious why rigid groups don't tend to resolve properly in higher level assemblies. (Though I am trying to have the team avoid them anyways.)

[TrippyLighting]

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@jeff_strater wrote:

... although that would be a good idea...

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Indeed!