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Working with model-based definition (MBD)? Here are a few features that simplify the handling of child annotations, based on the status of their parent annotations. You can find them in Creo 6.0 and later. Take a look:
When a parent feature is no longer available, you can exclude child annotations from your design and graphics based on the parent feature’s status and detail option.
Child annotations may be excluded when:
You can further configure what child annotations you want to exclude from the model. To do this, go to File > Prepare > Model Properties > Detail Options to change child annotations that are excluded using these 4 options:
For example, to exclude a child annotation in cases where its parent feature is being suppressed, first make sure that the corresponding detail option for this case is set.
Then you can highlight the desired feature, right-click, and select the option to suppress the highlighted feature from the mini toolbar.
This will exclude the child annotations of the suppressed feature and a special glyph will appear for them in the model/detail trees.
You can easily check the status of your annotations in the Model Tree.
The following statuses are available:
Finally, you can use the Search tool to find annotations based on their statuses (Excluded, Missing References, Failed, Not Available). Here’s how it looks:
See a demonstration of these tips in the video below.
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