HD70584: PART : UDF : CANNOT INSTANTIATE POWER COPY IF AN ISOLATED SOLID IS ONE OF THE INPUTS

APAR status

• Closed as Permanent restriction.

Error description

• PART : UDF : CANNOT INSTANTIATE POWER COPY
  IF AN ISOLATED SOLID  IS ONE OF THE INPUTS
  .
  SCENARIO:
  1. Open supplied CATPart in Part Design workbench
  2. Expand Body.4 in specification tree
  3. Isolate Solid.2
  4. Click in insert menu and select Knowledge
  Templates ? Power Copy. Power Copy definition
  dialog box appears
  5. Select Body.2 in specification tree
  6. Right click on Power Copy.1 in Power Copy
  definition dialog box and through contextual menu
  select Add All Authorized Inputs option
  .
  OBSERVATION1:
  Solid.2/face.2 and Solid.2/edge.2 are considered
  as inputs. Solid.2 which is parent of Extract.1 and
  Extract.2 is not selected automatically
  .
  7. Select Body.4 and manually add it to power copy.
  8. Click OK to power copy definition dialog box
  9. Create a new CATPart
  10. Click on insert menu and select instantiate from
  selection option.
  11. Activate Part opened in Step1 and select the
  created power copy. Insert object dialog box
  appears
  .
  OBSERVATION2:
  Error message is displayed : The destination
  PartBody is not valid with the position Inside for the
  instantiation of this template reference. The
  template contains the feature Extract.3 which can
  not be inserted at this position because of ordering
  rules. The destination will be unset. Please select
  another one.
  .
  12. Click OK to error message
  13. Click OK to Power Copy definition dialog box
  .
  OBSERVATION3:
  Nothing is instantiated
  .
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• PART : UDF : CANNOT INSTANTIATE POWER COPY IF AN ISOLATED SOLID
  IS ONE OF THE INPUTS
  PART : UDF : CANNOT INSTANTIATE POWER COPY
  IF AN ISOLATED SOLID  IS ONE OF THE INPUTS
  .
  SCENARIO:
  1. Open supplied CATPart in Part Design workbench
  2. Expand Body.4 in specification tree
  3. Isolate Solid.2
  4. Click in insert menu and select Knowledge
  Templates ? Power Copy. Power Copy definition
  dialog box appears
  5. Select Body.2 in specification tree
  6. Right click on Power Copy.1 in Power Copy
  definition dialog box and through contextual menu
  select Add All Authorized Inputs option
  .
  OBSERVATION1:
  Solid.2/face.2 and Solid.2/edge.2 are considered
  as inputs. Solid.2 which is parent of Extract.1 and
  Extract.2 is not selected automatically
  .
  7. Select Body.4 and manually add it to power copy.
  8. Click OK to power copy definition dialog box
  9. Create a new CATPart
  10. Click on insert menu and select instantiate from
  selection option.
  11. Activate Part opened in Step1 and select the
  created power copy. Insert object dialog box
  appears
  .
  OBSERVATION2:
  Error message is displayed : The destination
  PartBody is not valid with the position Inside for the
  instantiation of this template reference. The
  template contains the feature Extract.3 which can
  not be inserted at this position because of ordering
  rules. The destination will be unset. Please select
  another one.
  .
  12. Click OK to error message
  13. Click OK to Power Copy definition dialog box
  .
  OBSERVATION3:
  Nothing is instantiated
  .
  

Problem conclusion

• THIS PROBLEM IS PERMANENT RESTRICTION IN
  CATIA
  .
  Incident Diagnosis :
  This scenario deals with many problems:
  1. Body.4 - Solid.2 should be automatically
  included in power copy when Add All Authorized
  Inputs.
  2. Power copy can be created but cannot be
  instantiated.
  3. Extract cannot be instantiated due to ordering
  rules.
  .
  Restriction Explanation :
  First, the Solid.2 is not automatically added with the
  Add all authorized inputs because it cannot be
  manually selected (try to select it by clicking on its
  node). The reason why it cannot be selected is that
  there is another body already selected as
  component of the Power Copy (Body.2), and you
  cannot mix a solid body and a solid feature as
  component (because of problem of destination
  during the instantiation)
  .
  Secondly the Power Copy can be created and
  instantiated. User just needs to get a correct
  destination that fits to all components. This means
  that user has to create a Geometrical Set in the
  new CATPart before launching the instantiation of
  the Power Copy. A warning is displayed for the
  solid bodies but the instantiation is allowed.
  .
  Thirdly since a Geometrical Set is created for the
  destination of instantiaiton, the Extract feature can
  be correctly instantiated since it is aggregated
  under the Geometrical Set Node.
  .
  By-Pass :
  Select Body.4 manually as component for the
  creation of the Power Copy. Then, create a
  Geometrical Set in the Empy CATPart before doing
  the instantiation.
  .
  .
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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

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

Fix information

Applicable component levels