Assembly Browser Reference

Allows you to show and hide selected components, search, filter contents, manage access to editing, and use alternate access to functions in the context menu.

Browser Menu Options

In Assembly and Model environments, options reduce the volume of information presented in the browser. Use the following to eliminate the display of selected types of information. Deselect the check mark to cancel the selection.

Select to access Display Preferences and other options:

• Find opens a search box enabling you to locate objects matching your search criteria. Use Find to locate sick relationships, suppressed components or features, sketch parameter names or values, or other combinations of criteria you select.
• Edit Values in Browser turns the display of the browser edit box off or on (not available in Inventor LT). If enabled, the browser edit box (used for changing or measuring constraint geometry) displays near the item to edit.
• Display Preferences
  • Hide UCS turns the display of User Coordinate Systems off or on.
  • Hide Work Features turns the display of all work features and the Origin folder off or on.
  • Hide Notes turns the display of notes off or on.
  • Hide Warnings turns warnings attached to constraints in the browser off or on. Hide Warnings does not hide failures.
  • Hide Documents turns embedded documents off or on.
  • Show Children Only affects display of all parent-level assemblies. This option is not available when the Part environment is active (when you edit or create a part in place).
  • Show Extended Names turns the display of extended information for part features on or off.

Search and Filters

See Inventor Browser.

Browser Folders

Note: Create folders to organize the browser nodes into groups or to communicate design intent.

Relationships display a sequential list of all joints and constraints in the assembly. You can quickly change or measure constraint geometry by selecting an item in the Relationships folder. The Edit Values in Browser browser menu option must be enabled.

Representations provide access to View, Position, and Level of Detail representations. Select to define or retrieve a representation.

Context menu options perform actions on contents of the representations folder.

Tip: Select All Visible in the active view menu to restore an Isolate Components operation to full view.

For more information about menu options for each type of representation, see:

• To Create, Edit, and Restore View Representations
• To Create, Edit, or Copy Positional Representations
• Create Level of Detail Representations
• Edit Level of Detail Representations

Context menu options

The context menu (right click) presents operations on the selected component, feature, or relationship in the browser. Depending on the browser configuration and the selected item, some or all options are available.

The context menu and viewing options are available when you right-click an item in the graphics window or in the browser.