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There's one workflow issue that has been bugging me for some time.
I can't find a way of instantly going from a component of the assembly to its relevant constraints. Imagine you have a huge assembly with dozens and dozens of constraints. Imagine you have just put 100 bolts in.
Now you want to re-define constraints for a part. Good luck looking for it in the Relationships folder in the browser unless you have manually annotated it. Showing constraints helps a little but still if a part is large good luck finding where exactly is that joint origin you used to put it in place.
What's more - I could swear I have seen a button called something like "Show relevant constraints" but I can't find it anymore.
Is there some solution to this? If not, why was this approach adopted and can something be done about it? I know how they did it in Creo - you just right click a component and there's "Edit Definition" button that governs component constraints. Dumping all relationships in the browser just isn't helpful. You want to have one set of constraints that governs one components placement and can be quickly looked up. The question is never "Here's a joint/constraint, what does it do?". It's always "Here's a component, how is it constrained?".
Another thing that could be useful is being able to see in the browser which components are constrained and which are not. Because if you haven't constrained a component properly for some reason and then start moving things around it's gonna hurt and you want to be aware of what is constrained fully, partially or not at all. Like maybe make component icons in the browser relflect it.
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