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What is the "stoplight" for?

Here is what I know.


When it is green everything has been regenerated.
When it is yellow something has been changed and needs to be regenerated to be current.
When it is red there is some sort of failure.


There is probably more cases of when it is a certain color, but generically that is what the colors mean.


fun fact: If you have a circular reference in your model or assembly, it will never turn green.
 
Now you've truly joined this forum, Glenn.
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In response to your question, Greg, I believe the stop sign means "STOP". I'm not kidding. All I know is I see it way too much nowadays; basically every time I save this assembly I'm working on. It usually means my computer is working like gangbusters, and when I check the Task Manager, I can seePro-Efluctuating between "running" and "not responding".


I translate the stop sign as meaning "time to take a break". I just wrote two responses on the forum while the stop sign was on (just now)
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Ohh, I guess I probably used the wrong term here. I wasn't asking about the "Stopsign" but the 3 lights, green, yellow & red.
 
gggggggggg said:
OK, what does this have to do with my original question? Please stay on topic.
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Since your question was already answered in the 2nd post of this thread, these guys were jsut having a bit of fun - no harm there. I agree, Pro/E help is somewhat lacking but here's what I found...
When Pro/ENGINEER regenerates a model, the Regeneration status bar appears and indicates the status of the regeneration process. The status or regeneration result of a model is indicated by the following colors:
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I have many assemblies where the "stoplight" is always yellow, no matter how many times I regenerate. What's up with that?


I keep seeing a message stating: "Instance name '95073' encountered in 2 different generic models." There isn't a single instance named anything like"95073" in this model.What gives? Is this causing the yellow light?


Any ideas?
 
I also have a few assemblies that are constantly "yellow". I don't know what to do either.


As far as the "Instance name '95073' encountered in 2 different generic models.", that is pretty easy.


What it is telling you, is that '95073' is an instance in 2 different generics, stored somewhere on your file database. It doesn't matter that neither of those instances is used in the assembly you have open. Pro/E is checking the generic models and finding that 2 generics contain the same instance name.


Are you currently using a 'search.pro' file? If you are, you are retrieving the instance of '95703' that is in the folder that 'search.pro' finds first, which may or may not be the correct model.


You should find both generics that contain '95073', and delete it from one of them.


Feel free to contact me directly for help with this. I have already gone thru this, as we are about to go live with our PDMLink implementation.
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