HD14101: PRODSTRU : COMPASS FAILS TO SNAP TO PARTS AFTER CHANGING REPRES ENTATION MODE.

APAR status

• Closed as documentation error.

Error description

• Abstract: PRODSTRU : COMPASS FAILS TO SNAP
  TO PARTS AFTER CHANGING REPRESENTATION
  MODE.
  Description:
  1.Open file DE58957.CATProduct.
  2.Select the red square of the compass with mouse
  button one, continue to press MB1 while dragging
  the cursor over to any edge of Compass1.1,then
  release MB1.
  3.In the specification tree, select CATPart
  Compass2.1, then select the vy plane of the
  compass with MB1, continue to press MB1 while
  dragging the cursor around the screen. CATPart
  Compass2.1 follows the compass around on the
  screen.
  4.In the specification tree, doubleclick Compass1.1
  and Compass2.1 to bring both parts into design
  mode.
   5.Repeat steps 2 to 3.
  .
  Result:The compass does NOT turn green and
  neither CATpart moves around the screen while
  dragging the cursor.
  
  .
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• PRODSTRU : COMPASS FAILS TO SNAP TO PARTS AFTER CHANGING REPRES
  ENTATION MODE.
  Abstract: PRODSTRU : COMPASS FAILS TO SNAP
  TO PARTS AFTER CHANGING REPRESENTATION
  MODE.
  Description:
  1.Open file DE58957.CATProduct.
  2.Select the red square of the compass with mouse
  button one, continue to press MB1 while dragging
  the cursor over to any edge of Compass1.1,then
  release MB1.
  3.In the specification tree, select CATPart
  Compass2.1, then select the vy plane of the
  compass with MB1, continue to press MB1 while
  dragging the cursor around the screen. CATPart
  Compass2.1 follows the compass around on the
  screen.
  4.In the specification tree, doubleclick Compass1.1
  and Compass2.1 to bring both parts into design
  mode.
  5.Repeat steps 2 to 3.
  .
  Result:The compass does NOT turn green and
  neither CATpart moves around the screen while
  dragging the cursor.
  .
  

Problem conclusion

• THIS MODIFICATION WILL BE INCLUDED IN CATIA
  DOCUMENTATION DELIVERED WITH CATIA
  VERSION 5 RELEASE 14.
  NOTE THAT DOCUMENTATION WILL ALSO BE
  INCLUDED IN V5R13SP04.
  .
  Modification:
  More explanations are now available in Product
  Structure/Basic Task/Setting up the Visualization
  mode:
  If you do not click the root Product in order to
  make it active, the compass does not turn green
  when you move and place it on any part under the
  product and the part cannot be manipulated.
  and in Product Structure/Basic Task/Moving the
  Components of a Sub-Product in the Parent
  Product:
  Note that if chain (chain.1) is UI-Active , you
  cannot move chain from Articulation. You can move
  the "sons" of the UI-Active object and not the
  object itself (the UI-Active "father"). You cannot
  move an object respect to itself.
  .
  

Temporary fix

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APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

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