Unable to assemble an external simplified assembly into another assembly

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Is there a way to assemble an External Simplified Representation into another assembly? I'm using Creo 2.0. I get an error message as below

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dschenken · Answer

I think that is not possible. The use of an External Simplified Representation is as a shortcut to the basis assembly, not as a standalone item that is a replacement for an assembly.

I recommend reading all the PTC responses in the following message. There is a long passage from Gunter that I won't copy here.

per http://communities.ptc.com/message/252525#252525

Moshe Jacob Baum

Aug 8, 2014 10:09 AM (in response to Antonius Dirriwachter)

Re: External simplified Rep

No. ESR cannot be assembled to another assembly.

Further in the same message :

The intended use of ESR tool was to let "system architects" a way to prepare "work packages" and distribute them to the team w/o forcing them to ever download nor modify the higher level assembly(s).

Purpose of ESR is to store a simprep definition in a separate file that does NOT force user(s) to modify the top assembly object and/or interact with an internal simprep that is defined in the top assembly.

Realistically - in very large assembly scenarios - only the integrator(s) or very few users will actualy have access to the top assembly for editing, while each designer will likely have access to the systems of one's responsibility.

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