Replace Components PropertyManager
An assembly and its components may go through many revisions during
the course of a design cycle. This is especially true in a multi-user
environment where several users can work on the individual parts and sub-assemblies.
A safe, efficient way to update the assembly is to replace the components
as needed.
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You can replace a part
with a sub-assembly or vice versa. You can replace one, more than one, or all instances
of a component at the same time. |
To replace one or more components:
Do one of the following:
Set options as described below, then click 
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The selected component instances are replaced.
If you chose Manually
select, choose the configuration to open in the Configurations
dialog box.
If you selected Re-attach
mates, the Mated
Entities PropertyManager appears. Additionally,
a window shows a view of the original component with the missing mate
entity highlighted, and the Missing
Entities popup toolbar appears.
Selections
Replace these component(s) 
. Select the components to replace. Select All
instances to replace all instances of the selected component.
With this one 
. Displays a list of open files. Select from the list or click
Browse to locate the replacement
component.
Options
Configuration. Select one of
the following:
Match name.
The software tries to match the configuration name of the old component
with a configuration in the replacement component.
Manually select.
Enables you to select the matching configuration in the replacement component.
Re-attach mates. The software
tries to re-attach existing mates to the replacement component.
If the old component has
a mate that includes a named entity, and the replacement component has
a corresponding entity with the same name, the software uses the corresponding
entity when re-attaching the mate. You assign names to entities in the
Entity
Property dialog box.
Related Topics
Referenced
Files
Reload