Hello,
I would like to know if any of you know if it is possible to use the function group component occurrences in the tree of an assembly while maintaining a folder storage structure? It is to be said that if I have 10 nuts loose in the shaft, SW groups them in a nut occurrence group, and if I have 5 nuts and 5 screws in a screw file, it makes me two groupings in this same file (one of 5 screws and the other of 5 nuts)
The goal would be to have a construction shaft that is as compact as possible.
The behavior observed in my case is that SW groups the parts together whether they are loose in the assembly or in a folder, which changes the whole structure of my parts
Before the grouping
After the grouping
Hello,
You have to think of the grouping of components as a folder as well. So what you observe, i.e. instances of the same component partly contained in a folder, and the rest outside the folder, once the grouping option is activated, the whole structure goes to waste, it's normal.
If all the instances of screws and nuts are in the folder, the screw and nut groupings should logically remain in the folder (screw subfolder, nut subfolder):
It is not possible to have a grouping of one part of the instances in the folder, and a grouping of the other part of the off-folder instances.
There are existing enhancement requests to have groupings based on component and folder references.
I will pass on the links when I have found them.
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Ok thank you for these clarifications. Too bad so we'll wait for any improvements on the subject in this case.
Did you find the upgrade request, @Silver_Surfer ???
(I'm also interested in it... 
)
Thank you @Silver_Surfer , some requests are now percenlairized 
(I didn't expect there to be so many...).
Not all of them are there: some have been published in the Top Ten communities of different years that are no longer accessible and have not been moved to the base community.