×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

smart components and save

smart components and save

smart components and save

(OP)
I've been working with smart components for some time now and seem to have them working except for one problem.

When going to save the assembly in which I have now used the smart component, I get the message that the component is being referenced by another model (of course it is, since I have it in multiply assemblies) and if I would like to save as a copy.  I cancel this and continue with the save.  I than get another message wanting for me to save the smart component.  

These save messages are slowly but surely getting to be annoying.  Sometimes I have 4-5 different smart components in one assembly and I have to cancel/no/cancel no and so on to finally be able to save my assembly.

Two of the many smart components I work with, do not ask me this... I must have done something different.  But, I can't figure out why I'm not having the problem with these two.

Has anyone had this problem? Does anyone know what I have to do to make this stop??

Any help will be very highly appreciated!!

Christine

RE: smart components and save

(OP)
I think I solved my own problem.  

I had the compenents set to "read-only".  I went and unchecked the read-only from the properties and now I don't seem to have the problem any more.

C

RE: smart components and save

Under Tools -> Options -> System Options -> External References there is a check box for Don’t prompt to save read-only referenced documents (discard changes).  If your use of the smart component is not supposed to modify the file, you could set the component files back to read only and then select the above option.  The (discard changes) makes me a little nervous, but there are warnings when you go to change the read only parts.

Eric

RE: smart components and save

(OP)
Thanks for that tip Eric,

I should be ok leaving them at not read-only, since the parts are in enterprise and the only ones who have rights to check in and out of the smart components are admins.

Christine

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources