I have drawings I reuse for different designs. I sometimes insert a parameter value from a part into a drawing dimension for different reasons. When I copy these drawings and no longer reference that particular part, the dimensions in question get deleted by turning off the "Preserve Orphan Annontations", but the fact that the dimension that referenced the parameter value is deleted does not affect the link, and the drawing tells me there are still unresolved parts! Is there someway to remove these references from the drawing? I can write a macro if I have to, just not sure if there is some other way to do this, or even if a macro can do this? I can apparently just pick some other part in the job that doesn't even have that parameter and the unresolved warning goes away, but is that sufficient? I would think an option in the resolve file dialog should let you delete the reference instead? Using IV2012.
Maybe what you need is the Replace Model Reference tool, in drawing environment > Manage tab.
This tool replaces selected models referenced in the current document.
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Well, I could do that, but it seems to basically do the same thing as resolving to another file when loading the drawing. However, there is no longer any need to reference the part at all, as the dimension which had the parameter inserted no longer exists "visibly" in the drawing, so I would like to be able to remove this reference instead instead of just providing another dummy part.