Editing part in assembly, Part disappears from Browser

[Anonymous]

For the sake of this question, I am editing the last part in the browser.

This happens once in a while (on old assemblies). I am trying to edit the last part in the brower. once I double click the part to edit, it disappears from the browser.

Can someone help?

Thank you

Inv 2014 SP2, 64 bit edition

[Mark.Lancaster]

This might sound like a stupid question..  But did you scroll down in the browser?  It looks like the scroll bar is not at the bottom...

[Anonymous]

I just double checked. The Slide bar is way at the bottom. Again, this is not the first time this happens.

To fix the problem, I usually open that part and edit.

Unless a part is way too complicated and messy, I ALWAYS start new parts of a layout and edit them in the context of the assembly. I have been on Inventor since Autodesk started it. I don't understand how some users prefer to start/design individual parts and then bring them to the  assembly. 

Thanks

[Anonymous]

can someone at Autodesk check into this. I am surprised no one else has this problem.  It is really an issue.

Thank you all

[Mark.Lancaster]

This is a user community...  Although Autodesk does monitor it, they may never look at your posting..  Do you have a reseller?   Log a case with Autodesk through your Autodesk Account...

[Anonymous]

The one of the reasons I don't do this in inventor is because of how many extra things end up being on my screen when I have a part opened inside of an assembly. I go to make a sketch and its grabbing all sorts of stuff that I don't want involved with the features inside the part. I also have a lot of parts that get reused, and actually I'm not sure, when you start a new part within the context of an assembly, is it's origins relative to the assembly origin, or is it entirely independent of the assemblies origin.

Now using a program like solid edge, I have no problem creating and editing parts within the context of an assembly. Inventor makes it so **** difficult to see things when youre in an assembly. Every time I want to just make something disappear so I can see past it, it wants me to either remove associativity or modify a design view representation(which I really don't know what that even means really), when I should be able to just make it visibile or invisible without any modifications to any files being necessary whatsoever. And I should be able to have an assembly open, go into a part and hide the previous levels of assemblies so I don't have to deal with all the dang lines from the other components in the assembly. Also should be able to dimension to  quadrants, shouldn't have to project any geometry from  edges in a part just to dimension  from them, and shouldn't have to place a point at the midpoint of anything to dimension to the midpoint. Also, there should be a normal cutout.

[Anonymous]

Some how and from the beginning of Inventor I got used to working top down and find it the best way for new designs and editing parts of assemblies. You can't beat top down design. I know what you mean to all the extra lines but you can control all that in the options/displays of Inventor.....comparing the speeds of designs within the assy betweeen Inventor and Solidworks, Inventor's response keeps up with me while Solidworks crawls when designing in the assembly (I have not tried Solidworks 2014 or 2015 yet).

Still waiting for a power user to help me solve my issue.

Thanks for the reply

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Do you have steps to reproduce the behavior consistently? Did you do Isolate before editing the sub component?

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Please see the attached file.

In the assembly in question, the prolem is there all the time. I can duplicate the issue anytime. I just did the ISOLATE thing, then edit (from the browser). As soon as I enter the Edit command the part disappears from the browser and there is no way to edit then.

Thank y ou

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Is it possible you can share the dataset with us? If yes, I can set up a secure account for you to upload. Please send me an email (johnson.shiue@autodesk.com) so I can set it up immediately.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Would I have to upload all the part models of that assembly?