During model assembly, the application maintains the properties and scoping of the objects imported from upstream systems (geometry bodies, coordinate systems, contact conditions, Joints, Named Selections, and Command objects). These specifications are, by default, read-only in the downstream analysis system. A Details view category, Transfer Properties, as illustrated below for examples of a Named Selection and a Coordinate System, provides the Source name of the upstream system and provides an option to change the object's properties from Read Only. Refreshing your system returns these properties to a read-only state.

The properties of imported objects in a downstream system are by default, Read-Only, and inherit their values from the upstream system, except for the Suppressed property. The Suppressed property inherits its value from the upstream-system during the initial import only. The application maintains this setting as long as you do not change the property in the downstream system. Unlike all of the other properties that update when you modify the upstream system and refresh or reimport, if you change the setting of the Suppressed property, the application preserves your change and any subsequent upstream system updates and/or refresh or reimport does not affect this setting update. Based on this unique characteristic of the Suppressed property, the application does not treat the property as Read-Only.