Making an assembly into a part

Is there a quick way of making the parts in an assembly into a new, single
part?

A supplier's website allows you to download their products in a variety of
formats, but they all result in an assembly of 2 or more parts e.g. a
plastic moulding with 2 metal inserts would comprise an assembly and 3 part
files!!
I want to save them on our system as a single entity.

TIA
John Harland

 

Found the answer......it was too obvious!!
Just save the assembly as a part, which creates a part of separate bodies.

John H.

 

Can I assign different materials to different bodies, so that the mass
properties calculate correctly?
I used to be able to this in I-DEAS.

TIA
John H

 

Hello John-

File, Save As, Part. Then, look at the Options.

Best Regards,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com

 

Fairly straightforward - we do it a lot. Basically you need to insert a new
part, insert a join feature, join the parts together, open that joined part,
save as parasolid, open the parasolid file. You then have a single dumb
solid with no strings attached. If you have trouble, there is an article I
wrote back in 2003 that walks you through the whole process and describes
how to overcome some of the issues you may run into. You can find it here
http://kcswug.com/documents/articles/Join SW.doc. (You can also back up to
the articles folder and find the 3Gb switch article, etc.)

WT

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Wayne,

What does your method achieve that "save as part" does not?
Does it make the part a single body?

Regards,
John Harland

 

So what do you do if you have a moulding made out of 2 different materials?
e.g. many toothbrushes are made this way.

John H

 

No, even if you save an assy as a part, it's still relying on the individual
part files and you have to maintain them. If you round trip it through the
parasolid, you get a single, clean part, all one imported feature.

But, that has a good side to it. If you have only one seat of COSMOS, and
that guy is busy, you can still analyze a wlmt by joining it and then using
COSMOS Express. Since it's still linked to the parts, you can make changes
to them and run the analysis again.

WT

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Ok, how about I wipe the egg off my face. I knew there was a reason for my
method, but in my haste to get a reply out, I failed to check my memory.
The issue is as you say, the assy saved as a part will not have any external
references to the original parts, but it will be a multi-body part. I just
tried it and I got a part file made up of 50 solid bodies. Therefore the
parasolid round-trip here would combine them all into one body.

If you want to hook parts together to use COSMOS Express, then you need to
make a join part, but not parasolid it.

So sorry for the mis-info, folks. :-(((

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I think it's called old age and stressed out.....

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Now that was a thread worth reading, err??? sorry I forgot your name hehe
:-0

 

You might try making an assembly with different material for each part
and join the parts into a single part..I think you save the assembly
as a part.
R. Wink