How to close a secondary Feature Manager window, Solidworks 2004

[dcornell]

When I work in an assembly, view the mates of a specific part, edit one of the mates, a new Design manager window opens beneath the original one. How is this 2nd window closed?

 

[MadMango]

Grab the frame that creates the 2nd "window" and drag it either up or down to create a single window.

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[dcornell]

Thanks for the response. That's what I have been doing. I just thought it was odd and that there should be another way (ie: pressing the Esc key) or something.

 

[aamoroso]

Copy and paste the following code into an empty macro file. Then assign a shortcut key or create an icon and put it on a toolbar, this will toggle the split Feature Manager

Sub main()



Set swApp = CreateObject("SldWorks.Application")

Set Part = swApp.ActiveDoc



SplitterPosition = Part.FeatureManagerSplitterPosition



If SplitterPosition = 1 Then

    toggle = 0.5

    Else: toggle = 1

End If



Part.FeatureManagerSplitterPosition = toggle





End Sub