SolidWorks assemblies and components

Hi
Does anyone know...
If you can prevent editing a subassembly component of an assembly.
- prevent configurations of subassembly components from being changed
from the top level assembly
I want to control the subassembly configurations like a part
configurations; hopefully you have to enter edit mode the change the
part configuration (hmmm, better check that).

Thanks

 

AFAIK you could change the Read Only attribute of a component from
Windows Explorer, and thus keep people from Opening a particular
subassembly for editing, but preventing someone from changing the
configuration (via Properties) of a subassembly is not possible. In
doing the latter you are changing the top level assembly (which I must
presume can be opened for editing in your query), NOT the subassembly.
That is to say you're changing the Properties of your subassembly IN
your upper level assembly. That's not the same thing as changing the
subassembly itself.

'Sporky'

 

Thanks Sporky
I reloaded the subassy as read only and tried to change a part comp of
the subassy; I got a warning that I was changing a read only
'document'.
pdmw is good for controling read only status...

I need an API that will take a list of selected components inside a
window; parse out the parts inside subassys and select the subassys. I
would then have a list of top level components. I could do this in the
feature manager, but window selection is so much faster.
API
D