Solve Unsolved constrains easier..

[Anonymous]

Hi Inventor,

Last day I'd to solve some conflicted constrains. Cylindric parts in different holes. All parts had lost the ref. to the mainparts holes.

Anyway, each time I did solve a constrain inventor pops up with the Windows saying "the assembly cannot be solved"

If I choose Edit Inventor opens the same constrain that has already been solved. It's annoing when the constrain is good, with no error.
Can it be changed to open the next bad one, or maybe an extra bottom saying "go to next error"?

[leowarren34]

Next error would be better or just to show all errors and select which to sort first

[jtylerbc]

There is definitely some room for improvement in how constraint issues are communicated to the user.  The message as shown in the screenshot is often misleading.  It often is not the constraint that was edited that is triggering the message.  It is actually the next broken constraint in the list, but there is nothing in the message that tells the user that.

The confusing way that constraint errors are presented often cause users to become frustrated.  In my experience with my company's users, this often results in a "scorched earth" approach to solving constraint problems.  They'll go on a constraint deleting rampage, often removing constraints that had nothing wrong with them, messing up PosReps, etc.  Then they have to rebuild it all.  While impatient personalities have something to do with this as well, a big part of the problem is how unclear Inventor can be about communicating what is actually wrong.

[spencer]

Agreed, even Inventor just not bothering you if an edit reduces the number of errors would be a huge improvement.

[leowarren34]

@jtylerbc @spencer 

Bad communication spoils many things and Inventor is victim as you said, the lack of detail does fuel impatience and a more detailed approach to diagnose would be better rather than the nuclear option of deleting all constraints and starting again, which fustrates me, partially why I have a lot of sub assemblies...