Re: "apparent relation" - do we need it?



* During Editing, the software changes the alignment of related mates
automatically if necessary to prevent introducing mate errors.



During Beta this was a disaster. The software was flipping existing,
satisfied mates as I added new mates, so it was about impossible (or in
some cases 2-3 times more work) to get a part mated into the right
spot. Then, if I mated another part to the part I just planted, the
whole stupid process would start over and I would have to go back and
manually flip the alignment of all the mates the software
'conveniently' changed for me.
It was documented and reported but I do not know if it was fixed. If
it was not, we will not be able to use 2007.

SolidWorks does automation very poorly (in my experience) - if it is
left the ability to guess, it sooooo frequently guesses wrong. That's
why, though I totally agree with the reservations about adding another
level of complexity, I am still attracted to taking some of the
guess-work away from SWx because it's track record is not so good.

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