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Automatically switching Display States when selecting Exploded Views

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cinnamongirl

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I have an assembly with several exploded views, each exploded view corresponds to a different display state. Every time I want to view a particular exploded view I have to manually select the correct display state. Is there a way for assign a display state automatically to each exploded view?

To simplify things I've given the matching exploded views and display states the same name so I know which goes with which.

Thank you!
 
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Do you have this option selected?
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Thank you CorBlimeyLimey. That helped, somewhat.

I learned that it works if you are trying to link a display state exclusively with a specific configuration. I was trying to link each display state with specific exploded views, and all my exploded views are within the same configuration. So in the future I may have to create a configuration for each exploded view.

And by the way, I recently upgraded to SolidWorks 2015 and the option "Link Display States to Configurations" has been moved to the Properties menu of each display state;

Right-button mouse click on the display state name > Properties > Advanced Options.
 
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