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Assemblies
This chapter includes the following topics:
• Envelope Publisher
• Exploded Views
• External References Options
• Flexible Components
• Isolating Interferences
• Large Design Review
• Mates
• Modify Configuration for Toolbox Components
• Patterns
• Performance Improvements for Assemblies
• Save as Copy with a Subset of Configurations
Envelope Publisher
You can use the Envelope Publisher tool to include components from a top-level
assembly as envelopes in a subassembly.
You can work in the subassembly using the published envelopes as reference components
in isolation from the top-level assembly. The envelope components inherit changes from
the top-level assembly.
Multiple subassemblies can have the same envelope. Subassemblies can contain only one
group of envelopes published by Envelope Publisher .
When you select a subassembly as a destination for the envelope, an external reference
is created to the parent assembly. The Published Envelopes folder displays external
reference symbols that indicate the reference state of the envelope.
Envelope Publisher is available when an assembly contains subassemblies. The tool
is not available in Large Design Review mode.
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