I am doing a cottage design. So I created a lumber part with length, width and thickness configurable when I put it into assembly.
Everything worked as expected until I found out that on those copied lumbers I lost "configure part/assembly..." button when I right click.
The "referenced configuration" drop box is still there, so that I can choose from existing configurations.
But I need "configure part/assembly..." button to create new configurations.
Some screenshot added.
This is the parameters I created for the part.
This is the when I right click on the part I "inserted" into the assembly. I can click this button and I will get the configure window as shown in the screenshot above.
I have a lot of same length lumbers in the assembly, so I copied a lot of them.
But on those copied part, if right click, that button is missing.
This is very inconvenient, because you couldn't tell which part is original and which part is copied. And if you want to change the dimension of one of the copied part, you need to insert a new part and set the dimension, and then come back to that copied part and select the configuration from the drop down box above.
Thanks
Paul
I noticed this behaviour too, the box is only available on the first instance of that config you created. To find out which one you created first, select one and see which component is highlighted in the tree
I only have a couple of components here but I can see it is Default_New4
type that in the filter and choose the component with the lowest <instance id> eg for me <2>
but if you've been changing configs I guess that might not work or worse you could end up with no where to go.
How about the first time you insert a new config you make the part an envelope, you will always recognise it. It won't be included in the BOM, so make sure it's not holding up the roof ;p
If all you want to do is create a new config just CTRL drag any of the parts from the feature tree into the graphics window.
If you need to change a dimension then you can always just open the part and do it there. If model edits are blocked by the design table I guess you could always use the config publisher property manager from within the part itself
edit: just because you're using a config publisher and a design table (with allow model edits) doesn't mean you cant use the regular config manager