selecting subassembly

[mprice214]

Hi all,

Have a question regarding WF's selection tool. I was wondering if there was an easy way to select a subassemly in an assembly in order to modify it. Right now I have a work around, which is a mapkey from 2001 and older that pulls up the old assem mod menu and allows me to pick what I'd like to modify. For a refresher, it looked like this:

Memu Manager
ASSEM MOD
Mod Part
Mod Skel
Mod Subasm
Mod Assem
Mod Expld
Done/Return

MODIFY
Value
DimCosmetics
Dimension
Move Datum
Make Indep
Geom Tol
Datum/Axis
Pattern Table
Line Style
Scale Model
Done

Once I use this mapkey, I'm able to query through feature, subassemblies, parts, etc. and select on it to modify. If I wanted to narrow it to just parts or subassemblies, I can manually go select in the menu. In WF 2.0, I haven't seen a way to grab a subassembly quickly (other than going to the tree). The same with features in parts unless I activate the part first. I'm ok with the mapkey for now, but am worried that ProE will take that old menu functionality out in the future, rendering the mapkey useless.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[wsylvester]

Mike,


you can get pretty close with ctrl f


and it can be mapkeyed to your liking .

 

[jeff4136]

> In WF 2.0, I haven't seen a way to grab a
> subassembly quickly (other than going to the tree).


I don't know if this'll fill the bill, never having used pre-WF. If you'll select a part in the sub, RMB > Select Parent you can work your way up thru the assy structure.


> The same with features in parts unless I activate the part first.


If you'll set your selection filter to Feature you can grab and modify (RMB > Edit or Edit Def) without activating the part.

 

[mprice214]

Hi Jeff,

Selecting a parent using RMB is pretty cumbersome. Seems to me that a selection filter for assy's would be inherent to the program, but maybe there's a good reason not to have it. That unknown reason only popped up with WF.

Mike

 

[Jacoolo]

selecting can be done in many ways


I suggest to use filter in bottom right corner to focus on things You want to find


the search tool is also very powerfull, specialy when placing new components with hided axes on layers


to modify anything You have to activate it in assembly mode, so after selecting RMB and Activate, then You can do what You want to do