Generating Unnecessary Parts Tree Under Layout

[Daniel Toro]

When you generate a Layout, SD generates for every orthogonal view sub-parts of every Solid Model part and transfers the parts tree to ME-10. How can you remove these unnecessary parts tree prior to transferring the layout with its parts tree list to ME-

[Ken Johnson]

How are creating these orthogonal views. What version of SD. Sounds like you are creating a layout of an assembly. Are you selecting all parts or just the assmebly o layout. Also, it has been my experience that if you mess with the part structure that is created by SD and sent to me10 in any way, your associativity is blown away and if you want to update you are screwed. If you do not want the associativity you can simply clean out the part structure manually in me10.

[Gene Nevill]

This is a problem that I think has no resolution. The tree structure created by the layout is the direct link the adu uses to update from the solid model. I have been using this function in my large scale models to reduce the update time when changes are made. If you remove this tree information in ME10, you may lose the associativity with the model, though I have't tried it. My problem is related to this and I have learned that I can not do anything about eleviating my situation without shutting down functions in the parts browser, which I do!

[Berney Coleman]

There is a command you can use in SolidDesigner to flatten the parts structure PRIOR to generating the first layout. The command is: (use-part-structure-in-layout nil) or (use-part-structure-in-layout t) ;default After entering this in the SD command line, you will not see anything happen. However when you update the layout and bring it into ME10 you will get just one part/view directly under /. Associativity is NOT broken with this command. You must use this the first time you create and update a layout. If you have previously created a layout this command will break associativity.