Assembly components below mates in feature tree

I’ve seen this issue a couple of times since updating from SW2017 to SW2025. Sometimes components in an assembly are appearing below the mates:

I can drag the components above the mates, and once I’ve done that they can’t be moved back.

Is this a bug or a feature/setting I’ve missed?

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I have not seen that, or heard of it as far as I can remember. Is it happening in multiple Assemblies?

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I opened an existing assembly yesterday that was like that. And a user working on an assembly one level up from that one reported it happening when he was adding some new components via Copy with Mates.

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How old is that assembly? It reminds me of the old way mates were handled with multiple mategroups.

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Yeah, that might be it. Looks like it started life as a download from a vendor website:

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That explains why I had never seen it. That was ten years before I had ever heard of Solidworks.

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