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DPDerek Pepino25/07/2007
Where a Phantom part is required in an assembly to show clarity howdo you go about handling it?

There are times when I would like to have a part or assembly in myassembly, but I would not like that part reference in any way.

In fact I'd like that part to
1) show up with Phantom lines
2) not listed in the BOM
3) not referenced (Therefore it doesn't update, or get checked inor out of my PDMWorks) Vault)

The only way I can think of doing this, is to bring the said partin, and somehow 'explode' it into lines within the drawing fileitself, and make them all construction lines.

Is there a function like this somewhere that I have yet tofind?

(My only other ugly work around, is to bring the part in, export toa DWG/DXF File, then re-import the file back in so its only lines)