All of my basic standard library parts - in the "Contains" tab, they're showing a lot of drawings in a blue font. Can anyone tell me:
1- What the font being blue means?
2- Why are drawings showing as being contained in a part?
It's a major problem because any time I try to move a state on an assembly containing any library part, it tries to move thousands of different files all linked through the library parts. Many aren't in the correct state to be moved, so it just throws an error, which is a minor annoyance. Sometimes, however, the files are in the right state and we're moving multiple projects through workflows when they shouldn't be moved all because they both reference the same standard part.
Hey Michael,
The blue font indicates that the file is a sub-parent. These are parent files that are treated like children for reference dialogs like check-out or change state. Drawings are setup by default to behave this way, and the settings are per-file type not per-folder so if you change it for parts it affects all parts and you probably shouldn't (I can't imagine a time this would be a good idea). If you did want to change it the setting is in the administration tool under file types, just pick sldprt and remove the slddrw extension from the drawing nodes box: