Eliminating linked features

[cowski]

I have a few files that have linked features that I need to completely break the link. A linked body is fairly easy, you can remove the parameters of the linked body and it turns into a 'body' feature (dumb solid, which is fine for my purposes) and the child features update OK. However, if the linked feature is a datum feature, removing parameters is not possible. Is there a faster way to completely break that link or will they have to be replaced and relinked to child features by hand?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Rather than attempting to 'Remove Parameters', just edit the 'Linked Datum Plane', toggle 'Associative' OFF and hit OK.

Note that the big advantage of 'breaking' the WAVE links using the 'edit' command is that while the links are truly broken, the feature is still such that if at some later date you wished to reestablish those links or assign them to a new parent, the features already knows how to do this by simply using 'edit' command once more.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[cowski]

That's the problem, I don't want any sort of pointer back to the original file. In many of my cases, the link points back to a development file that has since been deleted. Trying to import a production part into TeamCenter that contains a link to a non-existent part has raised some issues.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Yes, but if the links are broken, doesn't Teamcenter account for that?

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[cowski]

Can Teamcenter account for the broken links? - Mostly.
The secondary problem I'm running into is very generic names were used for these development files and TC is erroring out on duplicate part names.