Find References

[krywarick6]

Maybe I am little bit thick to today or just slow. I'm not quite sure.

I go to File/Find References and get the listing of references. Is it just me or does anyone know how to find exactly what the reference is pointing to? It tells me what model, but can I find out what thing in that model to which it is referencing?

I just looked through 40 part models of an assembly just to find out that it's not in a model, but in the assembly itself. Duh? why couldn't it have told me that to start with and why can't it point to it when I click on the name?

Just venting, but if anyone knows an answer it would be greatly appreciated.



Christopher Zona - Product Designer
Loretto, Ontario

 

[Gupta65]

Have you tried using SolidWorks Explorer

Deepak Gupta
SW2009 SP4.1
SW2007 SP5.0
MathCAD 14.0

 

[krywarick6]

It turns out out that it was the end of the day and I was getting googly eyes.

After paying attention to the selections offered by the reference list box, I come to the realization that I was looking at the flat view instead of the nested view. This helped to determine where the link that I was looking for was located.

Christopher Zona - Product Designer
Loretto, Ontario