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About Cable Locations with Missing References
If a location point fails to regenerate and the cause of the failure is an external reference that is missing, the application enters failure mode. You can either try and fix the problem while in the failure mode itself or reassign the locations to dimension from an assembly coordinate system. The data structure of a cable location stores information about tangency and direction. This information is used when you reassign the locations to dimension from an assembly coordinate system.
Set the allow_freeze_failed_assy_comp and freeze_failed_cable_locations configuration options to yes to automatically freeze a cable location that fails retrieval into the assembly, at its last known location.  When you delete a component in an assembly or even the component's datum reference, the state of any child of that component changes to regenerated state. When a location fails due to a missing reference, the location is frozen, that is, the location’s status is changed to frozen. Use the Convert to Offset command to reassign the locations to dimension from an assembly coordinate system.
To Convert Frozen Locations
1. Ensure that the allow_freeze_failed_assy_comp and freeze_failed_cable_locations configuration options are set to yes.
2. Click Locations > Convert to Offset.
3. Select one or more frozen locations to convert.
4. Select a reference coordinate system for the locations. The selected locations are converted.
 
* Only locations that have an updated data structure with tangency and direction information are converted using Convert to Offset command. Locations that do not have a data structure are ignored and not converted. If some locations are not converted, a message displays indicating that one or more locations could not be converted and to refer to the Help Center for details about how these locations can be converted.