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[#1]

Well MSK we've sort of highjacked this thread but what do you mean difficult to rename patterns?

You do a slow double click in the text area just like any other browser node that supports renaming?

Seems to work no problems for me. Can you give me any more details?

Yes I am aware that F2 is not hooked up correctly to windows rename but that _is_ a different thread! :-)

[#2]

Yea, it's a hijack. But I was working on a lot of patterns this morning and I was trying to help this guy earlier. So I was just checking to see what other answers he was receiving Sometimes I have to close out the assy and reopen it to get the slow double click to work. The "F2" would be great. But I just seem to have had this problem for a long time, I can’t tie the oddity of not working to any previous command. It does seem to happen more on larger files.

MSK

[#3]

I got confirmation from another developer that making an element that has a pattern in it independent was not completed when we did pattern of pattern.

I'm sorry that that seems to be affecting your workflow.

I'm interested in hearing more about the subassembly workflow though... I wonder if we can arrive at a workaround for yoru issue.

[#4]

I came up with a work around, but it was quite tedious.

It only becomes a problem in large assemblies where it takes upwards of 1.5 hrs to complete an array only to find I couldn’t/cant make an element independent.

So if I am correct... Any array/pattern cannot be edited to make an element independant if there is an array in that array/pattern!!!

Are they going to change this?

[#5 · Accepted solution]

I have added it to our list of desired improvements, that is all I can say in my position. Sorry.

[#6]

Thanx for the Info... Look forward to the improvement!!!