Revisited: Can't edit definition of first part

[cfly]

Oops - it does have default datums, they were just not the first features,
so I didn't see them at first. Any more ideas?

Carol


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Tom Peterek and Iain Lewis got it in one: no default datum planes, so it
can't be redefined. Aargh.

Thanks to all who replied!

Carol

Original message:

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Good morning:

Does anyone know why I might not be able to edit the definition of the first
part of an assembly? When I right click after selecting this component, Edit
Definition isn't in the menu. I've tried to clean all read-only features,
but the system says there are none to clean. I need to find out how this
part was assembled.

Thanks in advance...

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[cfly]

And strangely enough, I can suppress the component without suppressing any
others, even though the next component is constrained to features in the one
I'm suppressing??



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Oops - it does have default datums, they were just not the first features,
so I didn't see them at first. Any more ideas?

Carol


_____

Tom Peterek and Iain Lewis got it in one: no default datum planes, so it
can't be redefined. Aargh.

Thanks to all who replied!

Carol

Original message:

_____

Good morning:

Does anyone know why I might not be able to edit the definition of the first
part of an assembly? When I right click after selecting this component, Edit
Definition isn't in the menu. I've tried to clean all read-only features,
but the system says there are none to clean. I need to find out how this
part was assembled.

Thanks in advance...

[cfly]

Thanks again to everyone for the help attempts; after discussing it with
James Weed, I decided to delete the part, freeze or suspend all other
components and patterns, re-assemble to default placement and redefine.
Seems to be working well.

BTW - the reason I was able to suppress without others is that I had
previously replaced the component with a copy, then replaced the copy with
the original component, in hopes that I'd be able to do something with it.
After I erased that version from memory and reopened it, it behaved as
expected.

-----> Onward to the next snafu!

Carol

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And strangely enough, I can suppress the component without suppressing any
others, even though the next component is constrained to features in the one
I'm suppressing??



_____

Oops - it does have default datums, they were just not the first features,
so I didn't see them at first. Any more ideas?

Carol


_____

Tom Peterek and Iain Lewis got it in one: no default datum planes, so it
can't be redefined. Aargh.

Thanks to all who replied!

Carol

Original message:

_____

Good morning:

Does anyone know why I might not be able to edit the definition of the first
part of an assembly? When I right click after selecting this component, Edit
Definition isn't in the menu. I've tried to clean all read-only features,
but the system says there are none to clean. I need to find out how this
part was assembled.

Thanks in advance...