Handling changes to an assembly

Is there a better way than this?

Save the assembly under a new name. Open the part to be modified and save
the part as a new part. Go back to the new assembly. Delete the old part.
Insert the new part.

 

Open the assembly (nothing else open)
Open the part
Do a saveas on the part
close the part
Do a saveas on the assembly

 

What is it you are trying to do? If you want to make a new assembly because
it has a new part in it, I would just modify the part, save it with a new
name, then save the assembly with a new name. Am I missing something?

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

Thanks to both of you. I'm still "Autocad challanged".

 

You could use DBWorks PDM, with it you can use a function that allows you to
duplicate whole assemblies in one go, and still keep the old version for
history..