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When I constrain parts to some components of my assembly they gain many parents that they have no references to. Why?
Can you attach a screenshot of exactly what you are talking about?
When you assemble a component into an assembly, any constraint that uses other parts or assemblies become a parent for that assembly. The references are not in the component itself.