GO BACK TO LAST PART
GO BACK TO LAST PART
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Is there a command to go back to the last file you were in & make it work part? If there is I'd like to assign it to a function key.
Also is there a command that takes you to the next higher parent part in an assembly & make it the work part?
Thanks,
James
Also is there a command that takes you to the next higher parent part in an assembly & make it the work part?
Thanks,
James





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RE: GO BACK TO LAST PART
Now as for your second request, that's actually one in which we can help you get close to what you want.
On the Selection Bar there is a function titled 'Up One Level'. If you're working in the context of any assembly and you made a lower level component the Work Part and you would like to 'walk-up' the structure one level at a time, with the Work Part selected, press the 'Up One Level' icon and the selection highlighting will move up to the next level of the assembly. Subsequent selections of this icon will continue to move the selection highlighting up to the next level and so on. Now this will not make that next level the Work Part, but once it's highlighted, all you have to is double-click and it will be made the Work Part. While this may not be exactly what you were looking for, it can be very handy when working with complex assemblies and you wish to move quickly to the next level of the assembly without wishing to manually follow the assembly structure.
Anyway, give it try and see what you think.
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Kind regards,
Michael
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Greetings.
Michael
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That's not true. If the part file is already open, even if it has been modified and not yet saved, if you were working on another part and then used any of the mechanisms, such as 'Recently Opened Parts', 'Window' or the 'History' tab on the Resource Bar, to reselect the original part file, all that the system would do is change the one you selected to be the displayed part. It would NOT reopen the part file.
However, if you had opened an Assembly and then changed the Displayed Part to one of the Components in the assembly and then changed the Displayed Part to some other part, neither the 'Recently Opened Parts' nor the 'History' tab, would include that Component part since technically it had not been 'opened', but rather just it's displayed status had been changed. It would however appear in the list shown when selecting the 'Window' function. In fact, the 'Window' function comes closest to what is being looked for since it's the only scheme which will show ALL the files during your current session which had every been the Displayed Part (however it will not show parts which were only made a Work Part but not the Displayed Part).
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
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http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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The second part I didn't go into but it makes a good point.
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