Is there a way to delete smart component features, without deleting the smart component itself?
I have a smart component in an assembly that has a smart component feature in one of the parts. I need to delete this feature. But I don't want to delete the smart component itself. Re-inserting it would be a nightmare because: there are actually many that I want to do this to, there are lots of mates to these components, I want to be able to re-apply these features later in the design process.
Seth
Have you tried opening the smart component, saving it with a different name and making the mod directly to the file?
Matt
I need the component to remain, and remain the same name. I just want to remove the feature that it creates. You have got to manually apply smart component features to the other parts in the assembly. I did that, but now figured out that I should not have done this just yet. I don't see a way to un-apply these features, and get SW to recognize it.
I tried this. I opened the part that had the smart component features applied to it, and deleted these features manually. They deleted just fine. But when I go back to the assembly, SW shows the smart component still in "smart component state", instead of just another part like I want.
When it is in "smart component state" (features being applied), its in its own special looking folder that is implying that its in "smart component state". When I try to delete this folder, the component itself deletes as well.
Surely there has got to be a way to do this without deleting the component as well.....
Seth
I got it.... As soon as I hit send on my last post, I immediately went switched back to SW, and by shear chance figured it out. When you delete the smart component special folder, there is a checkmark in the confirmation box to delete the smart component as well. I had never seen this before. It was checked by default.
Learned something new today....
Seth
there are two ways.
OR
hopefull it will help you.
ali
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