I have an assembly I'm working in, and it would be helpful to hide some of them because I'm still adding parts to it, and I cannot see. When I turn off visibility to some of the parts, I get a dialogue asking if I wish to remove associativity. This is because I'm driving the location of some holes off of other parts in the assembly. Is there no way to hide some of these components without removing the associativity? I just want to be able to see inside of here, not get rid of the components altogether.
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Did you look in to creating levels of detail? Or maybe creating an iassembly factory file.
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Yes, I have created an additional level of detail, however this doesn't seem to change whether or not hiding a component results in it wanting me to remove associativity. This is the first major assembly I've put together in inventor, so perhaps I'm not getting something about this. But I have a new level of detail active and it won't let me hide some things without removing associativity.
Okay, now I tried suppressing the components instead of turning off visibility and I didn't get the same or any dialogue about associativity. Would suppressing these components be an acceptible way of achieving what I'm looking for? Is there any problems that may arise if I suppress them?
So am I to understand that "suppressing" a component in an assembly doesn't affect the assembly in the same way that suppressing a feature does in the part?
It depends on your definition of acceptible. I also suggested creating a factory file which can kind of sorta do the asme thing with out having to create LOD's. You can suppress these components within the factory table and control everything there. This would give you the same end result without creating an LOD.
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Acceptible as in I only wish to be able to see inside of my assembly, but I don't want this to affect the assembly in any way other that me being able to hide the component, as in hide it so I can see past it.