Assemblies: The Component Menu

Right-click a component in the Model panel to work on it. The menu is the quick way to hide, fix, mate, pattern, replace, edit, move or delete a part of an assembly. Assemblies are a Pro feature.

Right-click a component in the Model tree or in the view. The menu is short: the most used commands at the top, and the rest under Assembly tools, a submenu that opens when you point to it (or click or tap it). In the view, the menu also has the face commands and Export; see Right-Click Menus.

At the top:

Item	What it does
Open Model	Opens the saved model for this component. It opens in a new tab if you have tabs, and otherwise asks before leaving the assembly.
Hide / Show	Hides or shows the component. The eye on its row does the same.
Isolate	Hides every other component. Grayed with fewer than two components. Needs the Advanced plan or higher.
Change Transparency / Remove Transparency	Makes the component 75 percent transparent, or solid again. The row says "transparent".
Delete (Del)	Takes it out of the assembly (Model tree only; in the view it is under Assembly tools).

Under Assembly tools:

Item	What it does
Fix / Float	Locks it in place, or frees it to move. The message reads "(name) is fixed." or "(name) is floating."
Do Not Section This Component / Section This Component	Leaves the component out of a section view, or puts it back.
Form New Subassembly...	Groups the component, or all the rows you picked, into a subassembly.
Mate...	Opens the mate window for this component.
Linear Component Pattern..., Circular Component Pattern...	Starts a pattern with this component as the seed.
Mirror Components..., Assembly Cut...	Mirrors the component, or cuts through it.
Replace Components...	Swaps this component for another model.
Edit Part	Opens the part inside the assembly to change it.
Move Component, Rotate Component, Move with Triad	Moves the component.

Step by Step: Delete a Component

Right-click the component in the Model tree and choose Delete (in the view: Assembly tools, Delete), or select it and press Del.
A box asks "Delete (name)?" It says the component is taken out of this assembly and the saved model is not touched. If patterns were made from it, it says their instances go too.
Click Yes to delete or No to keep it.
Ctrl+Z brings it back.

Picking Several Components

Hold Ctrl or Shift and click component rows to pick more than one. The Assembly tools submenu then reads Form New Subassembly... (3 picked) with the count.

Other Menus

The assembly row: Insert Components..., New Part..., Show All Components (grayed when nothing is hidden), Linear Component Pattern..., Circular Component Pattern..., once there are mates Diagnose Mates..., Display States... (see Assembly Display States) and Configurations... (see Assembly Configurations).
A subassembly row: Open Assembly, Hide, Isolate, Change Transparency, Fix or Float, Make Subassembly Rigid or Make Subassembly Flexible, Form New Subassembly..., Dissolve Subassembly, Move Subassembly... and Delete.
A pattern instance: only Hide or Show, Isolate, Edit Part, Edit Feature and Dissolve Pattern. An instance follows its seed and cannot be moved, fixed or deleted on its own.

Tips

The mark in front of a name shows its state: (f) fixed, (-) under defined, (+) over defined, (?) a mate could not be solved. No mark means fully defined.
Hiding is per component. It does not change the assembly.
The component's saved model is never changed by Delete.

If Something Goes Wrong

"Assemblies are on the Pro plan." The menu items need Pro.
"Isolate a part on the Advanced plan or higher."
"(name) is part of a subassembly. Open that assembly to remove it, or right-click the subassembly and choose Dissolve Subassembly."
"A pattern instance cannot be deleted on its own. Edit the pattern to skip it, or dissolve the pattern first."
"A pattern instance cannot be fixed or floated. It follows its seed."
"(name) is fixed. Right-click it and choose Float to move it."

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