SHOW WITH DEPENDANTS
SHOW WITH DEPENDANTS
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Hi All,
I will typically bring into assemblies commercial items that need alterations for our purposes, in their as bought state. I then "hide in all configurations" through the component properties. Some colleages, when viewing sections of large assemblies use hide to get at internal parts, then "Show with dependants" to turn all parts back on. This practice however changes the state of my hidden commercial parts. I insert these parts only to create the drawing BOM and they never have to be shown.
Why should "show with dependants" change permanently the display state and is there a way to always keep parts hidded but available for drawing BOMs. I personally do not use show with dependants, but isolate instead.
I will typically bring into assemblies commercial items that need alterations for our purposes, in their as bought state. I then "hide in all configurations" through the component properties. Some colleages, when viewing sections of large assemblies use hide to get at internal parts, then "Show with dependants" to turn all parts back on. This practice however changes the state of my hidden commercial parts. I insert these parts only to create the drawing BOM and they never have to be shown.
Why should "show with dependants" change permanently the display state and is there a way to always keep parts hidded but available for drawing BOMs. I personally do not use show with dependants, but isolate instead.






RE: SHOW WITH DEPENDANTS
You might even want to check into using no-geometry virtual components. That way you don't have to keep track of the separate files.
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
RE: SHOW WITH DEPENDANTS