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Frame Generator issues

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Enroc
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Frame Generator issues

As you can imagine from the title, I'm making a frame; however, something went wrong with saving, which caused the assembly, where I made the frame, to somehow not include the frame gen in it, so today, I had to add the frame in this assembly manually. All is good so far, but now it comes. I want to add more frame parts to the frame, and now the assembly doesn't recognize it as a frame anymore but as a regular assembly. When I use the "Insert Frame" tool, it wants to create a new frame, which I don't want. 

 

There is no old version and we don't use vault so I cannot revert back to that. We work old fashioned with Inventor 2020. Is there a way to get my new frame parts in my original frame with the "Insert Frame" tool. Or to let the Assembly recognize the assembly as a frame again?

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Message 2 of 10
CCarreiras
in reply to: Enroc

Hi!

 

Are you using a project file? and if so, is active? and all the parts and folders are inside the  main project folder?

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Message 3 of 10
Enroc
in reply to: CCarreiras

we have on general project, so not one for each order. It's always active and everything is within the main folder indeed. I do not think it has anything to do with that anyway. 

Message 4 of 10
CCarreiras
in reply to: Enroc

Could you give us a print of the model with the model browser panel ay least.

It's difficult to discover something with so little information.

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Message 5 of 10
Enroc
in reply to: CCarreiras

This is how my model tree looks like.

 

The BDP-010-Basismodel is a multi body part that has the frame sketches from where I made the frame. But this Assembly didn't safe the frame in it somehow. while the frame itself has been saved. Now I added the frame in it but now it sees it as a regular assembly instead of a generated frame. So I can make changes but I cannot add new frame parts to it. 

Enroc_0-1702636866015.png

 

It should be having this symbol instead of the assembly symbol

Enroc_0-1702637384237.png

 

 

Message 6 of 10
Enroc
in reply to: CCarreiras

I cannot give the model itself, Company policy etc.

Message 7 of 10
CCarreiras
in reply to: Enroc

If you create a new frame generator basic model, it happens again? or is only in that model?

 

 

I believe the frame sub assembly lost the link with the multisolid file, that's why i asked about the project file...

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Message 8 of 10
Enroc
in reply to: CCarreiras

It has lost it's link indeed, but can I somehow reconnect that? I do not fancy recreating the entire thing all again. 

Message 9 of 10
CCarreiras
in reply to: Enroc

I guess is not possible to reconnect the reference sketch to the subassembly to turn it in a "manual frame generator" sub assembly.

 

The automatism is created in the initial assembly, where you created the frame.

Tip: Check the old versions folder and try to open the original assembly.

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Message 10 of 10
Enroc
in reply to: CCarreiras

Yeah, I know that. That's f'ed. There have been some changes, and now I have to remake the whole frame. 

 

That was the first thing I did, but no old versions. I also stated that in my initial question. 

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