secondary assemblies

Hi all,

names have been changed to protect the innocent,

I have a part called 'ring segment'
I insert it into an assembly called 'temp ring'
In the assembly I pattern the ring segment then insert a new part called
'fused ring' with a join feature than joins all of the patterned 'ring
segments'.
This part 'fused ring' has multiple configurations i.e. small extrusions
added after the join feature that change it's shape

I have another assembly: 'master assembly', I insert several instances of
the part called 'fused ring' into this assembly and carry on.

Later I need to create a copy of 'master assembly' and all it's components.
This is difficult to do because neither find references or sw explorer will
'see' the connection to the 'temp ring' assembly. I have to manually manage
this relationship by copying and renaming files.

If you have a better technique or some other insight into this issue I would
be pleased to hear about it!

Thanks,

Zander

 

Just a thought. You could break the link of the joined part by saving it
out as a parasolid and then back in.

WT

 

Another idea is insert temp ring.sldasm in Master Assembly.sldasm. Then temp
ring.sldasm could be hidden and would export with the rest of it. As long
as you don't add references to temp ring.sldasm in Master Assembly.sldasm
you shouldn't encounter any circular references.

You could set the mass of the origional parts to 0.0 or whatever the lowest
mass possible is to make sure that your mass props are not screwed up.

Corey

 

Thanks guys, both good ideas that I hadn't thought of....

Zander