Hello all,
I'll start off by saying I can't post the assembly, as it's a contract job.
I have two assemblies, basically a mirror of each other but constructed separately. I used tube and pipe runs to connect small tubing between instruments and piping. As the length of the rack changed, that tubing would change to match, like it's supposed to. Until yesterday.
I deleted and placed a new valve in the assembly (building the main piping runs outside of T&P until I build a library for it) but when I went to constrain it, thus changing the length of the assembly, Inventor would crash while it was doing the updates -- no crash report or anything came up, just a full CTD. I did have a route attached to a sketch on the face of the valve, and after about six crashes or so, deleted that route. However, I was unable to delete the tube segment, so I just deleted the sweep and work features associated with it and disabled the part, but it's still in the tree. So for that first assembly, everything appears now as it should.
For the second assembly, I basically just retraced my steps on what worked in the first. This time though, after inserting the new valve, all the runs I had made just blew up. The routes adapted to the length changes, but the tubing stayed as it was. Dragging a tube or route would cause a small rebuild, and the tubing would almost be correct, but now the tubing seems offset from the route. In the parts tree, routes are showing up in red, or sick, or both, while some tube segments have the blue "i" next to them. If I right-click -> show violations, it tells me "error found in solve" or sometimes that there's just an error and it doesn't know what. I've tried going to manage -> rebuild all, but nothing changes. I've gone to iProperties -> Occurrence to make sure that adaptivity is checked. I've tried changing the lengths of some segments (I would draw a route out of a valve/instrument and then autoroute the stretch between them), but that isn't working. If I delete the tube segment, it also clears out the route, although it leaves the entry in the parts tree. I've also tried going into the route and deleting/reapplying constraints, but that's giving me errors every time I try to do something there.
I probably could have redone this by now, but I would rather know why this all happened so that I can avoid/fix it in the future. Attaching a few pictures to show what I mean.
tl;dr:
-Why can't I delete a tube segment without it clearing the route sketch?
-Why are routes no longer attached to parts they were constrained to?
-Why aren't tube segments updating to match routes?
-Why can't I delete tube segments with the blue "i" next to them, or some without?
-Is there any way to check what's wrong with the red routes? (literally opened the sketch, deleted everything, redrew and it's still red)
Thanks in advance for any kind of help!
