Where Used

Where Used is a feature which shows all the models and drawings where the selected model is used. If current document is the part of one or more assemblies, Where Used shows all the assemblies which uses the part.

Documents referring to	The Document tree shows a structural presentation of the models and drawings where the selected model is used.
Preview	Shows the preview picture of the selected document. The preview picture appears automatically when you select a document.
Recursively show all upper level dependencies	Shows the structural presentation of all documents, which uses the selected document. CUSTOMTOOLS remembers the last state of Recursively show all upper level dependencies option.
Close	Closes the dialog box.

Print/Convert	Printing options for the selected document.
	Selected files	Opens the selected files in the Print/Convert feature for the batch operation.
	Assembly with structure	Opens the selected assembly in the Print/Convert feature for the batch operation.
Export	Export the document structure of the selected document into another information system. (Not available in CUSTOMTOOLS Viewer)
File Operations	Commands to perform different actions for the files. Available file operation commands:
	Delete File	Removes the selected documents.
	Since the user needs to have the Delete Design Data permission on the database level in order to delete reference data from the CUSTOMTOOLS database, the Delete File command is enabled only if the user has the necessary database level user rights. The data is deleted only from the database by default, but the user is able to delete the file completely also from the hard disk by selecting the Delete associated files from hard drive as well option in the Delete Files dialog box, that appears when Delete has been clicked.
	Open File in SW	Opens the selected document with SOLIDWORKS and closes the Search Results dialog box.
	Open Drawings	Find and open drawings referenced by the selected part or assembly document.
	Open in Explorer	Opens the location of the selected document in the Windows Explorer window.
List	Commands to export and open the document list:
	Export	Export the document list into an external file for the later use. The following file types are supported to export the list to: *CSV files (.csv). The exported values in the CSV files are separated by the Tabs in the output file. Text files (.txt)*. The exported values in the Text files are separated by the commas (,) in the output file.
	Open as CSV	Open the document list in default application assigned for the CSV files in your workstation.

While checking the file refenrences by using the Where Used command, the SOLIDWORKS mirror parts does not refer to their source parts. However the part that was used as a source of the mirror part keeps referring to its mirrored part.

When using mirror parts in assemblies, the mirrored parts keeps the references to the assemblies where they are in use.

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