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Select Parts or Assemblies?

Select Parts or Assemblies?

Select Parts or Assemblies?

(OP)
I want to know if there is a way or filter or something that when I click on a face of a part(in an assembly) it picks the whole part vs. that face? Is there a way to pick the sub-assembly it's part of by clicking that face? I tire of selecting a face, then finding the highlighted part in my feature tree. My assemblies are just too huge to do so.

Thanks,

Joel Warnke
Solidworks Professional 2008

RE: Select Parts or Assemblies?

Two settings;

Tools > Options > System Options > Display/Selection ... Highlight all edges of features selected in graphics view

Tools > Options > System Options > Feature Manager ... Scroll selected item into view  

cheers

RE: Select Parts or Assemblies?

Why do you want to "select the whole part"?  Do you just want to see what the whole part looks like?  

As far as selecting subassemblies, if you right-click on a face of a component that is part of a subassembly there is an option for "Select Sub Assembly".

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

RE: Select Parts or Assemblies?

Son of a B@#$%. When did they sneak that in their? Or am I really just going senile?

cheers

RE: Select Parts or Assemblies?

Also right-click on part and select 'other' to select different parts/surfaces through the parts/assy.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
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RE: Select Parts or Assemblies?

CBL,
I would suggest you read through the "what's new" PDF with each new release....  poke

I'm not sure if that was even in the "what's new" or not, but I think it started with '08.  It was either '08 or '07.  I don't recall, since I'd already written a macro some time before to do the same thing.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

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