any trick to stop FM expanding?

Just doing a drawing with many sheets, and it is driving me nuts that
each sheet keeps expanding when I close them - usually on save or
rebuild. Very annoying. I know this has been around for a while, but
maybe I missed a setting, or a key combo that solves this. Thanks for
solutions if you know one!

Daniel

 

It is one of the things shown to SW upper mgmnt during the 3 Amigos
trip. However, the majority of users aren't bothered by this behavior
of the Feature Manager.

 

Oh really. Oh. silly me.

Another question:
I do not remember seeing this before - the BOM is shown in the feature
manager at the same level as the primary page/sheet. So if you move the
sheet to a different position in the FM, the BOM stays in the same
place in the FM. I do not remember seeing that before. I thought the
BOM would be indented under the sheet it is associated with, no?
However, I cannot move the BOM in the FM... so now the sheets and BOMs
are out of order - but it does not appear to change the BOM display on
the sheet. seems odd.


Daniel

 

stranger still: I tried changing the position of each sheet by dragging
the tabs at the bottom of the window to see if that behaves
differently. It does. As soon as I did one, all of the BOMs jumped to
the top of the FM and are now grouped together. Hmmm. Now I am not sure
what was normal.

 

I agree!

 

Ok there is a bar at the top of the feature manager if you drag it down it
will show you two identical FM's. Hit esc a couple of times and right click
in an open space in the FM of each FM and choose 'collapse items' and voila
no more phantom expansions. Seems that if both are not collapsed on the
rebuild the other will expand to match the other. Kind of a pain but it
quells my soul...

You can see a picture of this FM bar at:

http://www.geocities.com/behnt/01.jpg





Ben

 

Yes, I know the split bar, and I will test that. the explanation that
if one is collapsed the other will not pop open makes some convoluted
sense, in the buggy software way....

Thanks for the trick,

Daniel