When I open a specific assembly (no other assemblies) solidworks opens 5 other files that may or may not have external links.... It just started doing this out of the blue as far as I know. Where do I look to find out what is really linked? It looks like I switched a setting or something but I have no idea. Help!
I have that set. I can't figure it out. The only thing I changed was I drug a sketch from one model to one that is in my assembly and used it for a extrude, but I don't see where it made any strange link. I would also understand if it opened up that specific file but it is opening other assemblies and all kinds of stuff.... I am puzzled.
Eric,
When you have this assembly open go here
Also, if you have a PDM system and you go to check in this assembly the last column to the right will
tell you if there are external references as well.
I have done that and a couple of the other parts that it is opening are in that list but 2 of the 4 are not on the list. How do I tell Solidworks to open just the assembly that I want to work on? It seems like there should be a setting for that.....
Other then these settings
there is no other way to prevent reference files from opening. You have to break the references
in order to prevent them from opening.
Open the referenced files and look for external references in the features.
Check for external references, see help file, and break ref to files not wanted.
Breaking external references can be good to clean up your models if you just want to get rid of all those references, however, the FeatureTree will keep that little broken link icon ->x next to the features which is just totally unnecessary and so unclean, I mean they're broken right? They're gone forever when you break links, why the icon?
Kevin,
Really good question! My own guess is that broken links are not really gone forever. We can't get them back again, but somehow SW keeps a memory of them for its own internal purposes. I seem to recall having issues with this back a number of releases ago. I think it was something like, I broke all the links, but SW wouldn't let me establish new in-context relations in another assembly because it still thought those links existed to another assembly.
Jerry Steiger
Maybe this one?
WT