Hey Guys,
I am trying to create an exploded view for a console design being the short story.
Further to that This is an assembly that contains a bunch of equipment that is contained within and on the console and I do not want to show these certain items in the exploded view.
However it does not appear to be able to make a separate 'configuration' that you can suppress such items within the exploded view without suppressing them in the main / or default view..
Any suggestions would be great!
see the attached image. this is how the exploded configuration is added - it was originally done in an older version of SW. I am wondering if I need to delete the entire exxploded view and start on the view again?
As you can see I have a configuration table to show different items for different configurations I was hoping I could do the same thing with the exploded view but this does not appear to be the case?
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Lets try that again...
Ok, so the exploded view is of the default config. If you create a new config, then make the default config active again, you can drag the explview1 to the new config. It's a little fussy about where you hover the mouse over the new config as you drag the exploded view but you'll see a little green arrow when you're in the right place. You can then suppress to your heart content in the new config and the explosion will work exactly the same asa the other config minus the suppressed parts.
AHA!! thx! that works.
Odd, suppressing in the exploded view and leaving unsuppressed in the parent view works just fine in SW2011 SP05.
How are you creating the configuration? this should work. If you have sub-assemblies you'll need to create configurations for them also and change their configuration state in the configuration of the main assembly. If you suppress a component in a sub-assembly within the main assembly it will remain suppressed in all configurations of the main assembly.