Hello,
I have created some part in context in an assembly. I remove the part from the assembly and then bring it back into the assembly. The references that were used to create the part are broken now broken (listed with a -> ?). I thought that the references would be re-established after bringing the part back into the assembly where the references are.
1.) Is there a direct way to reconnect multiple references now that they are broken?
2.) What is the best practice creating parts in context and not losing the references? For example what if I want to create a new part variant part2 based on part1 that has that has in context references. I have doing a save as of part1 to part2. This removes part1 from the assembly and leaves part2 with all the in context references. Now I want to bring part1 back into the assembly, but all of references are broken.
Deb,
I'm not going to answer your questions, but I may be able to help a bit. Change your method of copying a part slightly. Instead of "Save as", use "Save as Copy". This leaves part1 in the assembly, so you don't have to worry about any broken references. The down side is that you have to open part2 to make changes to it.
If you want part2 to keep the references to the assembly, then you need to copy part1 in the assembly, then save the copy as part2.
Jerry Steiger