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mirroring suppressed components

I'm about to submit this as an enhancement request unless someone can suggest a simple solution.

"I have a part that was created in context in an assembly. The part is driven by a design table that controls the assembly. I have created a mirror of this part using "mirror component". My assembly has configurations that use either the original part or the mirrored part but not both at the same time. The current problem is that if I suppress the original part the mirrored part does not get updated. Hiding the original part is not an option since the part would still affect the geometric properties of the assembly (mass, moments of inertia, etc).

It would be useful if there was a state between suppressed and hidden to cater for this situation."

Reply to
Steven
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If you create a mirrored part at the part level you shouldn't have this problem since the in context relation has nothing to do with the state of the assembly.

Reply to
Corey Scheich

What happens if you create your mirrored part from an envelope instance of the original part? I'm not sure it's possible in the way you want, but the envelope part is the only thing that has the properties you want.

Reply to
Dale Dunn

Thanks for the suggestion but the mirrored part still won't update if the original part is suppressed - unless I'm doing something wrong.

Reply to
Steven

Try keeping the referenced part opened in another window. This way SW doesn't drop the file when it is suppressed. Otherwise I don't know what to tell you.

Corey

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Corey Scheich

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