{"id":160,"date":"2012-10-10T15:40:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T19:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/change-you"},"modified":"2013-07-22T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:09:14","slug":"change-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2012\/10\/change-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Change Your Tree: See the Mates First!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when working with an assembly, I am more interested in seeing the component mates than the component features. While I know I can expand a component in the FeatureManager tree and then expand the mates folder beneath it, I find the tree gets cluttered quickly with all of the component features.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gxsc.com\/.a\/6a00d8349cbbac69e2017ee3d23195970d-pi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" border=\"0\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.gxsc.com\/.a\/6a00d8349cbbac69e2017c322e9cc2970b-pi\" title=\"image\" width=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>At times like these, I take control of my FeatureManager and invert the default behavior so that the features are in the folder&#8211;not the mates&#8211;when I expand components in the tree.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gxsc.com\/.a\/6a00d8349cbbac69e2017d3c5ccd9e970c-pi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" border=\"0\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.gxsc.com\/.a\/6a00d8349cbbac69e2017c322e9cea970b-pi\" title=\"image\" width=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>To accomplish this, simply right-click the top icon of your assembly\u2019s FeatureManger, choose \u201cTree Display\u201d from the pop-up menu, then choose \u201cView Features and Mates\u201d from the pop-over menu. Now, when you expand a component, the mates show up nicely, while the features can still be accessed by digging onto the Features folder.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gxsc.com\/.a\/6a00d8349cbbac69e2017c322e9d0f970b-pi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" border=\"0\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.gxsc.com\/.a\/6a00d8349cbbac69e2017ee3d231f6970d-pi\" title=\"image\" width=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>John Setzer is the Training Coordinator at&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gxsc.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Graphics Systems<\/a>, a SolidWorks Value Added Reseller with locations across Wisconsin and Illinois. He is a regular contributor to the Graphics Systems\u2019 blog:&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gxsc.com\/graphics_systems_solidnot\/\" target=\"_self\">SolidNotes.com<\/a>, your source for SolidWorks, Simulation, Data Management, &amp; Product Communication Tips &amp; Tricks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when working with an assembly, I am more interested in seeing the component mates than the component features. While I know I can expand a component in the FeatureManager tree and then expand the mates folder beneath it, I<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2012\/10\/change-you.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}