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hiding mate connectors "more than 1 level down"
stvnvl_8501
Member Posts: 120 PRO
Hi.
I'm guessing I'm missing a view setting here, but I have quite complex assemblies, which mainly use explicitly defined mate connectors to connect the parts.
In order to keep things tidy I would like to view only view mate connectors that are relevant or are being used in that specific assembly level. Now I'm only able to view all or no mate connectors.
Is there a way to control this? I think mate connectors are a superior way of constraining assemblies but it gets cluttered, real fast... Tried using display states and only showing the mate connectors i'll need in higher level assemblies and hiding all the others, but that doesnt seem to work + is a tedious task.
also: an assembly may have a usefull mate connector that is between 2 parts (or at imaginary crosslines) rather than on actual part geometry how does that work. this could help with configurations and swapping out parts. anyway...
made an example:
mate connectors | top+crossbeam+feet (onshape.com)
would really help me out if someone knew a workaround or best practise in keeping this orderly when working/ assembling with mate connectors.
I'm guessing I'm missing a view setting here, but I have quite complex assemblies, which mainly use explicitly defined mate connectors to connect the parts.
In order to keep things tidy I would like to view only view mate connectors that are relevant or are being used in that specific assembly level. Now I'm only able to view all or no mate connectors.
Is there a way to control this? I think mate connectors are a superior way of constraining assemblies but it gets cluttered, real fast... Tried using display states and only showing the mate connectors i'll need in higher level assemblies and hiding all the others, but that doesnt seem to work + is a tedious task.
also: an assembly may have a usefull mate connector that is between 2 parts (or at imaginary crosslines) rather than on actual part geometry how does that work. this could help with configurations and swapping out parts. anyway...
made an example:
mate connectors | top+crossbeam+feet (onshape.com)
would really help me out if someone knew a workaround or best practise in keeping this orderly when working/ assembling with mate connectors.
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Not quite what I'm looking for. Is there a similar mode for mate Connectors (the UCS-like features that uniquely define the mates) ?
essentially If only 2 mate connectors in an entire (sub)assembly are relevant for it's parent assemblies, I would like to hide all the others.
eg by defining a display state or something similar
so wherever this subassebly is used
I would like to see only these 2 mate connectors:
is there a way to do so?
but this is done manually, right? or can you "save" this somehow at the subassembly level? so whenever you insert the subassembly in a parent assembly only the 2 "relevant" ones are shown. That would be the idea here.