mirroring suppressed components

I'm about to submit this as an enhancement request unless someone can
suggest a simple solution.

"I have a part that was created in context in an assembly. The part is
driven by a design table that controls the assembly. I have created a mirror
of this part using "mirror component". My assembly has configurations that
use either the original part or the mirrored part but not both at the same
time. The current problem is that if I suppress the original part the
mirrored part does not get updated. Hiding the original part is not an
option since the part would still affect the geometric properties of the
assembly (mass, moments of inertia, etc).

It would be useful if there was a state between suppressed and hidden to
cater for this situation."

 

If you create a mirrored part at the part level you shouldn't have this
problem since the in context relation has nothing to do with the state of
the assembly.

 

Thanks for the suggestion but the mirrored part still won't update if the
original part is suppressed - unless I'm doing something wrong.

 

Try keeping the referenced part opened in another window. This way SW
doesn't drop the file when it is suppressed. Otherwise I don't know what to
tell you.

Corey