Enable "Move to Folder" and "Suppress" for Parts and Assemblies in Subassemblies

S1mon

Folder operations and Suppress/Unsuppress only work on instances in the current assembly. Even though you can hide/show and do other things to instances that are further down the tree, you can't create folders or suppress/unsuppress without opening up that level. It seems like a lot of extra work.

I get that if I try to put Part 2, Part 4 and Part 5 in a new folder that would be a little weird, but since folders only exist at the assembly level, Onshape could be smart enough to add new folders to Assembly A, B and C all with the same name and the respective parts. Certainly if I selected Part 2, 4 and 5 and right clicked and suppressed, this should be possible.

• Assembly A
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Sub-Assembly B
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Sub-Assembly C
• Part 5
• Part 6

lougallo

@S1mon This suggestion might be possible when everything lives in the same document but not if those sub assemblies are from other documents and linked to a version.  We want to avoid two different capabilities depending on version. This is why folders have to live a the top where you always have edit permission.

S1mon

@lougallo

I get wanting to avoid different capabilities depending on document location/version. It just feels a lot more restrictive than it needs to be. I'd like to get more work done in one place instead of having to open up a bunch of windows. Solidworks allows suppress/unsuppress etc from a top level. Maybe some things need to be grayed out or some other indication when they're not live in the same document...

johan_kotze883

I have a related (but hopefully simpler) question. I am in an assembly with my parts and would like to group them so they are easier to work with ( hide/show etc.), so I created folders in the assembly to "group" related parts. It works fine but is see no way to move a selection of parts into the folder all at once. I can only drag them into the folder, which is very tedious. I was expecting a "Move to..." option under the right mouse button of any selected part, or group of parts. Or is there another way please?