Making a copy of Assembly causes errors in Timeline

Making a copy of Assembly causes errors in Timeline

John_C_Hansen
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Making a copy of Assembly causes errors in Timeline

John_C_Hansen
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I have created an assembly of components as a 'Left Leg All' and to save the time of creating them a 2nd time I used those components to make a copy and "paste new". When I copy the Left Leg All and "Save New", a number of errors are created in the time line. What issues can cause these errors and should I be concerned? The components and bodies appear to be OK.

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Drewpan
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Hi,

 

The most common reason that these errors are caused is because sometimes when fusion re-calculates everything it

comes across something it cannot resolve without some help. This can happen most often with sketches not being

fully constrained but can happen for other reasons.

 

The way to fix it is usually by clearing them one at a time in the order on the timeline they happen. If you right click

on the icon in the timeline and "edit" it but simply press ok without doing anything, this forces fusion to recalculate

just that operation. By clicking ok you are saying it is how you want it and this often clears the yellow warning flag.

Sometimes it does not clear it and you have to edit it and actually change something but with yellow ones just edit

and ok normally does the trick.

 

Once you have cleared the first yellow warning fusion will recalculate everything and sometimes other yellow

warnings disappear also because the error in the latest flag was the based on the error you just fixed. If you are

lucky this will also fix red error flags. If you still have red ones then again, fix them one at a time using the edit and

ok method to start with or make a change to make them work and they will clear.

 

Fusion does a great deal of calculations in the background. Sometimes the user will do something that is fairly

minor back in the timeline that will cause these kinds of errors down the timeline. It all comes down to fusion has to

make a choice based on what you did and the choice is not obvious to the software so it throws a yellow or red flag.

 

The forum usually recommends that you ALWAYS clear a flag as soon as you get it when modelling because any

error will compound and you will be less likely to lose work later. Always have a good foundation. This is also why

the forum recommends that all sketches are fully constrained and blue lines and lock icons tell you that. If a sketch

is not constrained then fusion may have to make a choice and this will throw a yellow flag later.

 

Cheers

 

Andrew

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TrippyLighting
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@Phil.E I started looking at this assembly and encountered odd behavior, which I captured in this quick screencast.

Might be worth checking out.

If I were a new user, this behavior would completely confuse me!

 

 


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TrippyLighting
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@Phil.E Second bug of the day. I've seen this behavior before, but forgot to report it!

 

 

 

 


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TrippyLighting
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@John_C_Hansen here are some considerations captured in a screencast:

 

 


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