Part IV: Creating and Using Libraries
FIGURE 18.11Display modes for the Design Library
The real test for a library feature comes when you actually use it. This feature is re-created perfectly
on the new part, but I have noticed one problem. When the feature was placed, it was 90 degrees
away from the orientation that I wanted it to be in. It seems that the only way to make the feature
rotatable is to create it with parallel and perpendicular relations rather than horizontal and vertical
ones, so that one of the references can act as a rotation reference. Figure 18.12 shows the com-
pleted library feature placed on a part.Once you place a library feature on a part, it can be edited unless you select the Link to library part
option in the Configuration pane, in which case the feature is driven externally from the *.sldlfp
file. The Link to library part option is only available when the feature is first placed; it is not avail-
able when you edit an existing library feature in a part.One of the available RMB menu options is to dissolve the library feature so that all the constituent
features become regular features in the main part. Doing this on a configured library feature will
destroy the configurations.