smart components and save

[trulyshy]

I've been working with smart components for some time now and seem to have them working except for one problem.

When going to save the assembly in which I have now used the smart component, I get the message that the component is being referenced by another model (of course it is, since I have it in multiply assemblies) and if I would like to save as a copy. I cancel this and continue with the save. I than get another message wanting for me to save the smart component.

These save messages are slowly but surely getting to be annoying. Sometimes I have 4-5 different smart components in one assembly and I have to cancel/no/cancel no and so on to finally be able to save my assembly.

Two of the many smart components I work with, do not ask me this... I must have done something different. But, I can't figure out why I'm not having the problem with these two.

Has anyone had this problem? Does anyone know what I have to do to make this stop??

Any help will be very highly appreciated!!

Christine

 

[trulyshy]

I think I solved my own problem.

I had the compenents set to "read-only". I went and unchecked the read-only from the properties and now I don't seem to have the problem any more.

C

 

[EEnd]

Under Tools -> Options -> System Options -> External References there is a check box for Don’t prompt to save read-only referenced documents (discard changes). If your use of the smart component is not supposed to modify the file, you could set the component files back to read only and then select the above option. The (discard changes) makes me a little nervous, but there are warnings when you go to change the read only parts.

Eric

 

[trulyshy]

Thanks for that tip Eric,

I should be ok leaving them at not read-only, since the parts are in enterprise and the only ones who have rights to check in and out of the smart components are admins.

Christine