[Solved] Help for using the Assembly 4 "Configurations" tool

[FCuser2019]

Hello, this is the first time I have needed to use Asembly 4 "Configurations" tool to make an exploded view of a complex assembly. To understand how the tool works, I tried to use it with the simple assembly visible below:

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I did the following steps:
1) I opened the "Configuration panel";
2) I pressed the "New" button;
3) in the window "Create a new assembly configuration" I wrote "default_cfg" in the field "Enter configuration name" and then I pressed OK;
4) I modified the Placement of Part_B by setting "Z Translation=+25.00mm" as visible in the following image:

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5) I repeated steps 1),2),3) creating a new configuration called "exploded_cfg";
6) I opened the "Configuration panel", I selected in "Available configurations:" the configuration default_cfg, I pressed the "Apply" button but the configuration was not applied and the report view displays 5 messages "No data for object" as visible in the following image:

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the spreadsheet "default_cfg" contains this data:

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the spreadsheet "exploded_cfg" contains this data:

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Where am I wrong in the above procedure?


My configuration is:

Assembly4 workbench (v0.11.5)

OS: Linux Mint 20.2 (MATE/mate)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.26683 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 0388fbc)
Hash: 0388fbc98d49d874fb341b9037a743bc691d501f
Python version: 3.9.7
Qt version: 5.12.9
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.3
Locale: Italian/Italy (it_IT)

Thanks in advance for the help.

[FCuser2019]

Here the files:

[Zolko]

Hello, this is the first time I have needed to use Asembly 4 "Configurations" tool to make an exploded view of a complex assembly.

This is not the intended workflow. Try the following: adjust your assembly to the state where you want it to be (offsets, visibility ...). When done, create a configuration. Then change the state of the assembly, and create a configuration: Now, you can recall each configuration state and it will apply the parts as they ere defined.

You can also edit the AttachmentOffsets of each part directly in the configuration spreadsheet. Please report if you have problems

[FCuser2019]

Hello Zolko, thanks for your reply.
This is the first time I've tried to use the "Configurations" tool and maybe there is something fundamental I didn't understand because I seem to have followed the workflow you mentioned.

An important question: are the data in the rows of the Asm4::ConfigurationTable spreadsheets automatically generated by the "Configurations" tool when creating a new configuration or do I have to create them manually?

As you can see in the pictures in the first post, the "Configurations" tool creates Asm4::ConfigurationTable spreadsheets that are almost empty; is this normal?

[FCuser2019]

I did another test starting with the same assembly as in the first post:

1) I hide Part_B by pressing the spacebar:

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2) I created a new configuration table called "hide_Part_B_cfg":

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3) the automatically created spreadsheet of the configuration table "hide_Part_B_cfg" is:

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4) I made Part_B visible by pressing the spacebar;

5) I opened the "Configuration panel", selected in "Available configurations:" the configuration hide_Part_B_cfg, pressed the "Apply" button and Part_B was hidden but in the report view error messages are displayed:

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I attach the new file Assembly.FCStd (the files Part_A.FCStd and Part_B.FCStd are the same as in the first post).

[FCuser2019]

Hello Zolko, happy new year

Is there any news about the problems described above?

[Alex76]

Have the same problem in my assembly project, doesn't work and give same errors

Help us please

[Zolko]

Is there any news about the problems described above?

I didn't code that function, and I don't know what happened, but I'm looking into it.

[Alex76]

Is there any news about the problems described above?

I didn't code that function, and I don't know what happened, but I'm looking into it.

Hello Zolko,
any news about? I'd like to use your idea, using two configurations for exploded chart...

[Zolko]

any news about? I'd like to use your idea, using two configurations for exploded chart...

I've released a new version (0.11.9) that fixes this I think. Could-you please update and test ?