To Handle Children of Suppressed Components

1. Retrieve an assembly and select a component that has children.

2. Right-click and choose

Suppress from the shortcut menu. The Suppress dialog box opens.

3. Click Options. The Children Handling dialog box opens.

4. Where applicable, use the following options:

◦ Click Local or External to view the list of local and external children.

◦ Clear the Suppress entire group check box to select an operation for individual group members affected by suppressing the parent.

5. Select a child object, then select an option from the Status list:

◦ Suppress

◦ Suspend

◦ Freeze

6. Repeat step 5 for all the objects.

7. Click OK.

Frozen components are identified by

in the Model Tree.