If you edit any of the following items that belong to a subassembly, the editing focus changes automatically:
- Sketch
- Component pattern
- Mate
- Assembly feature (cut or hole)
- Reference geometry
Similarly, if you edit a feature (the definition or the sketch) of a subassembly component, the software automatically changes to Edit Component mode. References that you make while editing a subassembly component are always made in the context of the top-level assembly, not the subassembly that contains it.
If you add a mate between a subassembly component and some geometry outside that subassembly, the focus changes to the subassembly automatically. The mate is added to the lowest level assembly that contains both components (the lowest common parent).
In the graphics area, when you select a component that belongs to a subassembly and perform a Delete, only the selected component is deleted, not the entire subassembly.