Fusion has updated and, guess what, my asm has failed. Reading though the feedback on "Position Calculation Failed Due to Initialization Error" I see a lot of blaming the operator for poor practise.
I hate this phrase but......I do feel like I've been round the block - Mechanical desktop in '98, SDRC I-DEAS Artisan anyone?, then ProE for many years, then and still SW along side Fusion.
Assemblies fail.
In a parametric world, with even with reasonably modest part counts, changes causes broken links or incompatible relations. What is important is how the interface allows you to interrogate and resolve those failures - this is where Fusion fails.
Even in the early days of ProE and certainly never in SW have I feared assemblies failing over like Fusion. It doesn't give you anything to go on, where is the parent child relationship info, where is the dialogue box which shows the list of components and the references used?
I've got a string of early rigid group failures early in the build in parts which haven't changed since early Dec. Cryptic technical error messages don't help me resolve the fail. In this case, even deleting the group and reselecting it is failing.
It shouldn't be quicker to rebuild the asm from scratch rather than interrogate and resolve the failures.
End of rant, off to my other job tomorrow with SW 2012 vintage where I know I won't be having these issues.
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