On occasions, Solidworks 2008 (education version) returns errorsmessages when I try to mate components into an assembly. It sayssomething like "unable to mate because part was patterned from thesame component".

Of course, this is just a minor inconvenience that didn't stop mefrom moving forward, I just mated different surfaces or planesinstead. But so what if the the parts were saved-as and patternedfrom one another? They are all different entities now. I don't seewhy this would be an issue, and I am curious if you people have anopinion about it.SolidworksAssemblies