Multi constraint. What is it?

[coin37coin]

Hi everyone.

When I opened an old conception of my company, I came across a grouping of constraints with the sweet name of " multi-constraint ".

Have you ever seen/used it?

For those who use the @Silver_Surfer macro for the removal of " ghost" constraints , they must be ungrouped, otherwise the macro is buggy
Macro Identification and Removal of Faulted Constraints - Macro - myCAD Forum

[sbadenis]

Hi @coin37coin ,
To enable multi-constraint mode:

For example, you select a face and all the faces of the other elements you want in reference to the 1st side:

And if necessary you check " Create a multiple constraint file"
The folder is what appears in your tree.
It can be removed without removing the constraints with a right click Break down the multiple constraint, if it annoys you as much as I do!

Edit: Personally I don't like, few advantages for too many constraints!

[Silver_Surfer]

Hello,

Yes, I know and I sometimes use it in addition (I find it very practical in some cases).
On the other hand, I completely skipped it when I did my macro.
Thanks for the info for the bug. I'll see if I can identify the multiple constraint folder to process the content.

[coin37coin]

Thanks guys.

This is really an option I never use... and which had gone under my radar until the use of the macro!

It seems practical for some cases... not sure to use it in the future for all that

[Sylk]

Hello

@sbadenis

Personally I don't like, few advantages for too many constraints!

I love it on the contrary, it instantiates the constraints with a common reference in addition to clearly organizing them in a common hierarchy. And when you want to switch from one reference to another (e.g. to go from an assembly or component plan to a plan of another component) it's much easier.
And in theory, the authorities lighten all the fuss. I haven't checked here.

[Silver_Surfer]

Re;
I shared the corrected macro:

Macro Identifying and Removing Constraints in Macro Error

Following the bug of the macro shared above noted by @coin37coin, (see Multi constraint. What is it? -thanks to him-), I share with you the macro corrected to take into account the multiple constraint files: Option Explicit Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2 Dim swModelDocExt As SldWorks.ModelDocExtension Sun swSelMgr As SldWorks.SelectionMgr Dim swFeat As SldWorks.Feature Dim swMateGroup As SldWorks.Feature Dim swSubFolder As SldWorks.Feature Dim swMateFeat As S...

Thank you @coin37coin !

[froussel]

Hi @Silver_Surfer

Congratulations on the work done.

If you can add a loop for scanning/processing all the subassemblies it would be perfect.