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About the Instrumented Assembly Component Chooser
When you select an assembly as the source component for an Instrumented Assembly, the Edit:DEFINITION REP dialog box opens. Use it to select the components to exclude from the Instrumented Assembly. The Component Chooser consists of the following user interface items:
Model Tree
Model Graphics
Shortcut menus
Display buttons
Model Tree
The Model Tree displays the top–level component and all lower-level components. The DEFINITION REP column displays the representation for the component.
Show—Sets the display of components in the Model Tree.
Check All—Shows all components.
Components with Explicit Statuses—Shows all components with explicit representation status.
Active—Shows active components.
Inactive—Shows inactive components.
Envelope—Shows envelope parts.
Search box—Searches in expanded nodes for the component typed in the box.
Select—Includes the following commands:
Advanced Search—Opens the Search Tool dialog box for selection of components from the main window.
Select in main window—Enables component selection from the main window.
—Sets the Model Tree options.
Columns—Opens the Model Tree Columns dialog box. Use this dialog box to add or remove information columns.
Expand All—Expands all the Model Tree component nodes.
Expand To Selected—Expands the tree to display the components selected in the Model Graphics window.
Collapse All—Collapses all the Model Tree component nodes.
Save Tree—Saves the Model Tree to a tree.cfg file.
Shortcut menus—Right-click a component in the Model Tree
Set Representation to—Sets the representation of the component.
Derived—Derives the status from evaluation of the simplified representation. By default this is the master representation.
Exclude—Excludes the selected component.
Master—Sets the selected components to master representation.
To access shortcut menus for tree columns, right-click the column header. To sort the column in ascending or descending order, click the column header.
Group By—Groups the nodes in the tree according to values in the column. Only one column can be grouped at a time. When you sort a second column, the nodes under each group are sorted.
Ungroup—Returns the components to the original structure. The command Restore original structure (Options > Restore original structure) also returns components to their original structure.
Columns—Click More to open the Model Tree Columns dialog box. Add columns and click OK.
Model Graphics
The Model Graphics window displays graphics for components in master and automatic representations.
Show (Advanced View)—Sets the display of components in the Model Graphics window.
Check All—Shows all components.
Active—Shows active components.
Inactive—Shows inactive components.
Envelope—Shows envelope parts.
—Sets the display of components in the Model Graphics window.
Show Hidden—Shows hidden components.
Auto highlight on selection—Highlights selected components.
Auto update preview—Automatically updates components.
Update Preview—Shows updated components. Available when Auto update preview is not selected, updates the view when you include components that were previously excluded.
Model Graphics toolbar—Use the buttons to quickly select components.
—Sets a filter to remove components smaller or larger than the specified size from the selection.
Slider—Move the slider to filter smaller or larger components. When you click (default) all components below this size are removed. When you click all components above this size are removed.
—Select a component to determine the size of components removed from selection.
—Removes all internal components from selection.
—Removes all external components from selection.
 
* Click the arrow to display the previous two options.
—Inverts the selection between selected and not selected components.
—Retrieves only currently selected components.
 
* The default values for the size filter and the resolution of external components selected are set by the Component retrieval settings.
Shortcut menus
Representation—Sets the representation of the component.
Derived—Derives the status from evaluation of the simplified representation.
Exclude—Excludes the selected component.
Master—Sets the selected components to the default state of the master representation.
Isolate—Excludes all components that are not selected.
Buttons
Use the buttons to customize the display of areas in the Retrieval Customization dialog box.
Model Graphics window position buttons—Sets the position of the Model Graphics window.
—Appears to the right of the Model Tree.
—Appears under the Model Tree.
—Appears on top of the Model Tree.
—Appears to the left of the Model Tree.
—Hides or unhides the Model Tree area.
—Hides or unhides the Model Graphics area.