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Removing references

Removing references

Removing references

(OP)
I have an assy & some parts were deleted from the assy. The parts may have been deleted from windows explorer but are still associated with the assy. The parts are not in the assy but when I open the assy it SW states it can not find the part, do I want to search for it myself.

I can not figure out how to remove these parts fully from the assy so SW does not ask me to find the parts which do not exist anymore. In the assy references I can see the parts but can't remove them.

Any ideas? SW2007 sp2.2

Thanks

RE: Removing references

In the folder where the assy resides, create parts with the name the assy is looking for. Once they are included back into the assy they can be deleted (from within the assy) and the assy resaved.

cheers

RE: Removing references


This is real "seat of pants" solution and hopefully you will find something better:

Make a dummy part. Give it a name and save it.

Open the assembly and every time it asks for an unfound part, direct it to the dummy part. Then delete all of the dummy parts from the assembly after it opens.

RE: Removing references

(OP)
I found my problem. What happened was the parts/assy SW was trying to find where also in other sub assys in my main assy. I took the parts out of the main assy but not out of the sub assys.

Now that I removed from the sub assys, it fixed the problem.

thanks to all

RE: Removing references

The assembly or some of the parts within the assembly may have features which were created in-context with the now deleted parts.  If that is the case, the in-context features will need to be redefined to remove the dependency.  Parts and features with broken in-context relationships will have a ? next to them in the feature tree.

Eric

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