Save a Copy of an Assembly with Drawings

[wbottis]

Hi Folks,

Using CREO 7.0.8.0

I have never been able to understand what the purpose of the radio button designated 'Copy Drawings' is for. I always have it selected when copying an assembly in the graphics window, but drawings are never copied, neither for the renamed assembly nor any of the renamed sub components. What is the purpose of this selection? Thank you.

 

[aputman]

If the associated drawing is in session, it will also be "Saved As" to the same directory.  Works in 8.0.

[wbottis]

I just gave it a shot. I opened the top assembly and the drawing as well as a sub-assembly and its drawing, then saved the top-assembly with 'Copy Drawings' checked. Not even the top assembly drawing with the new name was created.

[pausob]

I believe for this check-box to work, the components / assemblies being saved-as have to have the same name as their drawings.

Then the system will create copies of their drawings with the new names as well.

See this thread: Copy drawing and model and attach them , for example.

[wbottis]

I was able to accomplish the "saveas" operation for the top and lower level assemblies and keep the drawing associations at all levels, but I had to do it in my workspace as opposed to the graphics window. This approach was tedious, but more streamlined than saving each object/drawing individually and then having to rebuild the top assembly. I will try the refined approach you mentioned above in the future. Thanks for your feedback.

[StephenW]

Once I learned how to use windchill to save-as and keep drawings associated, I never use creo to do a save-as, except for maybe the simplest of parts drawings. In windchill, pre-select the items you want to save-as, then go to File-save as. Even more advanced in windchill, is if you want to do a save as on a part or assembly that is in an upper level assembly and you want the new part/assembly in that upper level assembly, you can use the next button in the save as window and replace it during the rename, along with keeping all the drawings connected as expected.