SolidWorks 2010 Bible

(Martin Jones) #1

Chapter 28: Employing Master Model Techniques


FIGURE 28.3

The FeatureManager showing items inserted with an inserted part


For the inserted part, you can set configurations of the parent document in the External References
dialog box, which is available through the RMB menu of the feature that is inserted into the child
document FeatureManager. The External References dialog box is shown in Figure 28.4. If the
overhead of bringing many bodies forward only to be deleted is an issue for you, then you can use
parent part configurations to delete the bodies first; then, from the child using List External
References, you can select which configuration to insert.
Free download pdf