Can I use a design table in a part to...

I should explain some more maybe there is another solution to my problem

I have a weldment part and want individual drawings of each member used with detail of the ends. I do not want to make this into an assembly via the split parts - save as assembly as the time it takes for updating sucks and sometimes the updating does not work well or at all. I can suppress say structural member 1 but then I suppress all of the members in it and would like to only suppress or hide one part of it...

I thought I did this in 2004, I made several configurations and hid the elements I did not want to see and it worked then... Maybe this is a bug I need to bring up to SW?

Ben

$SHOW@component is used in assemblies to hide and show components... I could not find anything that specifically for hiding/showing bodies in parts...try the $SHOW column header and see if it works.

Use the split command and skip making the assembly just make a file for each body. These models will update when the weldment is changed but you can insert the weldment part into other assemblies and it will not need to update because it is the parent part, and the child parts won't need to be opened or updated except for their detail drawings.

Corey