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Reloading a Component after Discarding Changes

You no longer need to manually reload a component in the assembly file when you discard changes made in the component file. When you close the component file without saving it, a dialog box asks if you want to keep or discard the changes in the assembly.


  1. Open an assembly, then open one of its components in a separate window.
  2. Make changes to the component.
  3. Click File > Close.

    A dialog box asks if you want to save the changes.

  4. Click No.

    A dialog box explains that because the component is open in another window, changes you made to the component will still appear in that other window.

  5. Click one of the following:
    Keep Keeps the changes in the assembly file, even though you did not save them in the component file. For example, use Keep when you want to make more changes to the component, but you need to make them in the context of the assembly.
    When you save the assembly file, changes to the component are saved to the component file.
    Discard Reloads the unchanged component file into the assembly file, so that the changes no longer appear in the assembly.
    Cancel Keeps the component file open so you can make other changes or save the file.


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