Sorting Components by Their Opening Time

A property stores the time taken to open each of an assembly’s components the last time you opened the assembly. You access the property, SW-Open Time, in Assembly Visualization.

The property shows you which components take the longest to open. You could then simplify or remove those components to decrease the time needed to open the assembly.

To sort components by their opening time:

  1. In an assembly, click Assembly Visualization (Tools toolbar) or Tools > Evaluate > Assembly Visualization.
  2. On the Assembly Visualization tab , click the arrow to the right of a column header.
  3. On the flyout list, click More.
  4. In the Custom Column dialog box, in Properties, select SW-Open Time.
  5. Click OK.
    SW-Open Time becomes the column header, and the opening time for each component appears.
  6. Click the column header to sort the components by opening time. Click again to reverse the sort order.