Removing External References In Solidworks Files Goengineer By using the display delete relations (3) command and setting the selection to external (4), we can see a list of all external references (5): to remove all of the external references, i'll use the delete all command (6). i'm now left with a sketch with no relations or dimensions: it’s always good to have a sketch entity tied to the origin. Figure 1: virtual part with external references. right click on the part file in the assembly featuremanager design tree and select open part. (figure 2). for this tutorial, we will save the file as an external file so that it is no longer a virtual part. figure 2: open the virtual part in a new window. with the file open, go to file > save as.
Removing External References In Solidworks Files Goengineer Created 3 yr. last reply 3 yr. goengineer 1 post. do you have external references in your solidworks file that you need to manually remove? learn how to manually removing external references in part files here.view the full article. In this follow up, where a solidworks assembly was created using top down methods, see how to turn the new virtual part into a discrete solidworks part file and how to replace the external references. view the full article. by goengineer, february 6, 2023 in blog posts. share. Close the assembly without saving. then use the open file command in solidworks to browse to the assembly; again we will click the references box to display the references and display the name and in folder columns with all the component parts and sub assemblies listed. double click on the part or subassemblies and browse to the folder where. Expand the feature to see the sketch, note that the sketch also has the external reference “carrot” indicated. right click on the sketch and “list external references”. the external references dialog appears on the screen listing the referenced data. the data listed is the file name, feature name, etc.
Removing External References In Solidworks Files Goengineer Close the assembly without saving. then use the open file command in solidworks to browse to the assembly; again we will click the references box to display the references and display the name and in folder columns with all the component parts and sub assemblies listed. double click on the part or subassemblies and browse to the folder where. Expand the feature to see the sketch, note that the sketch also has the external reference “carrot” indicated. right click on the sketch and “list external references”. the external references dialog appears on the screen listing the referenced data. the data listed is the file name, feature name, etc. Step 4: removing the external references. it is finally time to actually purge the model of all these external references. this can be a tedious process, depending on how much of the model is dependent on its parent assembly. the key is to start with the latest change and work your way up the feature tree to the oldest changes. To modify external references, select the external references and click break selected, lock selected, or unlock selected. a dialog box appears listing the selected external references. click ok. you have the option to not create external references when designing in the context of an assembly.
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