It is true that they are not the same between the part instances and the skeletton.
Here are two screenshots showing the part (instances) icons and skeletton icons.
Part instance A1 (and B1): blue gear + green gear + red axis system + light blue kind of loop under gears (once in design mode...
I don't think so, here's how I work every day on CATIA :
every part (and part instance) used in this (part containing power copy, instantiation part, skeletton parts) every part was NON-isolated (=NO red lightning bolt on the icon), updated (=NO yellow update spiral on the icon) and all...
Hi to all,
I have to make a power and instatiate it from A1 to B1 part. I have done it with similar parts before (say from A2 to B2)
From A2 to B2, some of the external references inputs were a SURFACE and SUB-ELEMENTS from that surface : SURFACE, SURFACE/face.1, SURFACE/edge.1 and...