Deleting Smart Component Features

Is there a way to delete smart component features, without deleting
the smart component itself?

I have a smart component in an assembly that has a smart component
feature in one of the parts. I need to delete this feature. But I
don't want to delete the smart component itself. Re-inserting it
would be a nightmare because: there are actually many that I want to
do this to, there are lots of mates to these components, I want to be
able to re-apply these features later in the design process.

Seth

 

Have you tried opening the smart component, saving it with a different
name and making the mod directly to the file?

Matt
http://sw.fcsuper.com

 

I need the component to remain, and remain the same name. I just want
to remove the feature that it creates. You have got to manually apply
smart component features to the other parts in the assembly. I did
that, but now figured out that I should not have done this just yet.
I don't see a way to un-apply these features, and get SW to recognize
it.

I tried this. I opened the part that had the smart component features
applied to it, and deleted these features manually. They deleted just
fine. But when I go back to the assembly, SW shows the smart
component still in "smart component state", instead of just another
part like I want.

When it is in "smart component state" (features being applied), its in
its own special looking folder that is implying that its in "smart
component state". When I try to delete this folder, the component
itself deletes as well.

Surely there has got to be a way to do this without deleting the
component as well.....

Seth

 

I got it.... As soon as I hit send on my last post, I immediately
went switched back to SW, and by shear chance figured it out. When
you delete the smart component special folder, there is a checkmark in
the confirmation box to delete the smart component as well. I had
never seen this before. It was checked by default.

Learned something new today....

Seth

 

there are two ways.

1. save the smart component in your working folder and replace it with
the exsiting one.

OR

2. keep your assembly open and right click on smart component and open
the component tnah save it by some diffrent name it will automatically
update the same components on other location in assembly.

hopefull it will help you.

ali