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Trying to pipe together my assembly

Trying to pipe together my assembly

Trying to pipe together my assembly

(OP)
Hello all,

I am trying to pipe together my assembly with plastic tubing. I know how to do it the hard way (3d sketch and trial and error) but is there a way I can create it right in the assembly? I will just omit it from the BOM. I just want it there for pictorial reasons.

Thanks in advance!
SW2005 sp1

RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly

Tools/Insert Component/New Part, pick your plane, then 3DSketch as you already know.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP2.0 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site

FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly

(OP)
wow, that was fast, you would think we were paid to surf this help forum.. haha..

Thanks! I am a moron and didn't even think of that. I am ashamed for even asking the question.
Thanks!

RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly

They don't know it, but they pay me for this!
Glad to help. It also helps me and keeps me alert.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP2.0 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site

FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly

(OP)
What I was thinking was that I could just make it an assembly feature. Since I am making it a "part" it needs to be saved somewhere on our network with a bogus name (its being ommited from the bom).

RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly

In assemblies, it has to be a part. Features can only "remove" material such as adding a hole or cutting. I always make the part name somehow related to the assy name and save them in the same place. Then they all get checked into PDMWorks.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP2.0 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site

FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly

What do you guys think about allowing some modeling featuers in assembly file? Would be nice to do wiring or welding in the assembly rather than through an external part file. PDMs tend to choke on these.

At least with multi-bodies you can put them in one file though instead of the "old" days of putting each in it's own file.

How to keep people from modeling in the assembly file would be the problem though.

Jason Capriotti
Smith & Nephew, Inc.

RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly

I did send a enhancement request last year. Need more users to send it in.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP2.0 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site

FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly

(OP)
Yes, that last part is very true..

RE: Trying to pipe together my assembly

It's a tricky issue to approach. I like the concept of part and assembly files but I would like some part functions in the assembly environment. As you'll notice, Solidworks is adding more assembly type operations in parts (Multi Body, Body mates, Weldments). How to do all this while keeping the distinction, don't know???

UG has no such distinction, there is only one file type for drawings, parts, and assemblies. This has some advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages: Any part can become an assembly, multiple parts can be joined for fillets to mimic welds.

Disadvantages: Inserting a part to use as a reference to create a part shows it as an assembly in the tree and PDM, confusing IMO. Same file type so it's harder to see "assembly" files when just browsing.

So how should Solidworks handle this? Maybe the ability to save out multi bodies as assembly and part files with their features intact? Add better welding to assembly environment that doesn't utilize separate files? Add some part fucntions in the assembly environment, extrude, revolve, sweep? Allow these assembly bodies and their features to be saved out as part files?

Jason Capriotti
Smith & Nephew, Inc.

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