I've looked for a thread on this and only found one and it hadn't been replied to so I apologize in advance if I'm reposting or whatever its called
I've created 3 bolted connections without fasteners. When I need to edit one I go to the browser and click on a random one and look for it to be highlighted in the browser so I can work my way through the three until I get the one I need to edit, normally when editing a part or assy I would click on the part and open or use "find in browser" but I don't think I can do that with BC's. The problem is none of the 3 I click on in the browser are highlighted in the window (see screen shots), leaving me to have to go to each individual one in the browser, right click and select "edit using design accelerator " to actually get them to highlight. Now this is just annoying with 3 bolted connections but with hundreds (which would be the case if I used them all the time like I want to) it would be a catastrophe . Maybe I'm doing this wrong, If so please advise.
As I mentioned I've uploaded screen shots.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Mike
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Mike,
I get the issue you are having is when you select the BC in the browser it does not highlight in the model. The part I am confused about is when you say you have three BC's without fasteners. That means to be that you have three empty BC's in which case what would highlight if they are empty? Not to mention I didn't know you could have BC's that were empty without fasteners.
What am I missing with this statement.
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Hi Cadmanto, thanks for the reply. For some reason I don't quite get we don't use content center for our fasteners, not my call or we would. and yes you can make what at least what Inventor calls bolted connections without CC fasteners (see browser bar in screenshot 3), I guess I just assumed when I clicked on the the bolted connection in the browser it would highlight the features its creates for that individual connection. Maybe this is the issue, us not using content center fasteners. When you create a BC can you highlight them in the window by clicking on the browser icon/node? I mean is this your experience? And if so does it only highlight the fastener or does it also highlight the features it creates?
thanks,
Mike
I have only used parts from the CC for bolted connections and from what I remember, it did highlight in the model when you tagged it in the browser.
Can't say that I remember it showing the created hole though. Not saying it didn't, just don't remember.
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