anyone else tired of this....?

SW explorer.

open assembly,select copy, copy children, find where used. You find a
multi page drawing that has drawing view derived from the assembly and
drawing views derived from individual parts in the assembly. You copy
this assembly to a new folder including all children with a new suffix
like "rev 2".

When you open the copied version of the drawing any views that were
created from parts are still looking at the original parts requiring
you to rename the original folder and refind the newly copied parts one
by one as you open the drawing.

bleh!

 

Argghhhhhhhh!

 

Ummm, I can't reproduce that problem as described. I've been using SW
Explorer for some time and it seems to work fine, at least in this
instance. The only problems I ever have are upstream drawings. Ie. You
have a seperate drawing for one of the parts that you want to copy as
well as the assembly and assembly drawing where it's used. You need to
Copy the main drawing, assy and child parts. Then copy the second
drawing afterwards pointing it to whatever new part it should be
looking at.

It looks like you're copying the top level assembly and then trying to
point the drawing at it. You should be using Sw Explorer to copy the
drawing and it's child components.