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tleati12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
June 22, 2015
Question

Open and save assembly component intersected by assembly level features

Hallo,

I have an assembly with components ad assembly-level features inside (holes, cuts...): is it possible to open and eventually save a component as a separate part contaning that feature inside (while keeping the original version of that component)?

thanks

bye


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vzak12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
July 7, 2015

Tommaso,

There is no simple way to do this.Once you create assembly level intersection it is not propagated to original model, so copying original model to any new name will not bring this intersection to part level.

Regards

- Vlad

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tleati12-AmethystAuthor
12-Amethyst
July 8, 2015

Hello Vladimir,

thanks for your reply. I have to update you that there is a way to open the intersected part with the cutting feature in, and then you can also save a copy of it: the problem is that this new copy of the part with the cutting feature inside does not update with the feature at the assembly level--> it would be comfortable to us to have an auto-updating link for this kind of products too (as it happens for example when you rename a part in an assembly which is not in session).

bye

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vzak12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
July 8, 2015

Hi Tommaso

I am bit confused how you can get intersection after Save a Copy of the part. This can only happen if you made intersection on a part level, not on assembly level. Then such intersection will behave similar to any feature created in part with reference to assembly (like Extrude that references Datum in assembly). If you make a new copy of such component it will never update - since Save a Copy keeps no associativity to the original. If you want a new copy to be associative - use Inheritance Feature or likewise tools.

Regards

- Vlad

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