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GRIP Question, Close Child Parts in an Assembly

GRIP Question, Close Child Parts in an Assembly

GRIP Question, Close Child Parts in an Assembly

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Greetings,

I am writing little grip program which will open an parent assembly (no components) then cycle through & load the child components, section the component at TDC, then close the child part before opening the next part.

I know how to get a list of the components (there was something very similar on here a while ago)

I can open the parts by making them the work part then making the parent assembly the work part to get the section in the parent part.

Question……

Does any one know how I can close a child part in the assembly?

I’ve not got any ‘Vis’ tools, and the assembly in too big to fully open on my pc.

Cheers in advance

P

RE: GRIP Question, Close Child Parts in an Assembly

There is no command that directly 'closes' a component.  The closest you can come would be to us the 'Update Component' command (UPDATE/) but the best that you can do there is to either replace the current reference set with the 'Empty' one, or replace the entire component with some dummy empty component.  While this should remove the component from any display, it will probably have no effect on the performance or memory usage as I expect that the component will still be loaded in memory as this command does not actually 'close' it.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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