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break a reference or make independent?

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December 1, 2017
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I am trying to make clearance a moving part. In assembly I used moving part -A- as a reference to give clearance with part -B-. but I about destroyed my asm when I moved -A- back. Is there a way to make a part independant and say "ok I dont want to change the way you look but stop using other parts as a reference"?

simple exaple.

block A is 20mm

block B is 30mm taller than block A

I want B to stay at 50mm regardless of what A does.

I dont want to export then import the part just to break references. there has to be a way to do it in CREO yes?

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Best answer by dschenken

Open only part B; don't have the assembly in session.

Redefine the feature in Part B that refers to the Assembly. It will ask if you want to keep or delete the assembly reference. Delete the references.

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Open only part B; don't have the assembly in session.

Redefine the feature in Part B that refers to the Assembly. It will ask if you want to keep or delete the assembly reference. Delete the references.

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I might be over thinking this but im not sure how to do that.

could you give a step by step?

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yep. I was overthinking it. after playing around I have it figured out.

Thank you very much for your help.

16-Pearl

How did you make the reference? Through a Data Sharing feature like a Copy Geom or by a direct External Reference?

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I made the parts active in assembly then used the surounding parts to make the profile cuts.