Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Finding all the assemblies a part is used in

Question

I would like to run a search to find all the assembly files that reference a particular part. Can this be done?

Answer

Open the part in Revision Manager. Select the entry for the part (the row will becomes yellow). Hit the Where Used command. Choose an appropriate top level folder to search in. Hit Next. The assemblies that use the part will begin to appear below. Note that this process could take some time to complete in an unmanaged file system depending on the number of files that need to be searched through.