moving a patterned object

[dewme5]

I have an assembly, and inside that assembly are 4 battery packs. (1 original, and 3 patterned) The original is constrained on 1 side, and 2 tangents. allowing the packs to be move only in the y direction for adjustment over time. The pattern was set up using direction, 2 @ 2" spacing in X direction, 2 @ 2" spacing in y direction.

Everything looks good until I want to move the original. I prefer ctrl+alt+drag, but no matter how, if I move the original, none of the patterned objects will move. redraw, regenerate, even closing / erase not displayed / reopen, will make the pattern move.

The only way I've been able to work this, is to delete the pattern, and then recreate.

Any suggestions?

WF4 m030

 

[kdem]

If you expand your pattern feature and look at the instances, is there a square before the part name? If so this means thefirst instanceis partially constrained. Try fully constraining the original and see if the pattern updates.

 

[dewme5]

that does the trick to fix it. the only problem is I lose the ability to drag if necessary. I had purposely left it in a dragable state. If I have to make a choice though. having them all in the right location is better then dragging around.