"form new Sub-assembly here" command

i have a question regarding the "form new Sub-assembly here" command.

i use it when im in assembly mode and decide that 3 or 4 parts (sometimes many more) that i have put in my assembly should be in a sub-assembly instead for the sake of drawing organization.

However, ive noticed that when i do this, a lot of my mates throw warnings and need to be deleted because they are in conflict with another mate.



Is there a way around this?? i just finished a model and its like, not even constrained at all anymore. I built the whole thing mating the parts together and to the planes but as i added more and more parts and formed more sub-assys, its not mated anywhere anymore. i can grab the main part and flop it all around with a bunch of the smaller parts hanging on for dear life........

anyone encounter this problem? and how to get around it!!

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This has been a problem that I have mentioned to my VAR several times.



There are two ways to do this--the way you suggested and inserting a
new subassembly and then dragging the parts into it. I have had
these results with both methods.



I have never received a good response to this problem. It''s very
disappointing--because it's a great feature, if it would work.



I would encourage you to pose the problem to you VAR, or to call SW
Support. They generally welcome feedback on significant problems.