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Changing assembly dimensions

Changing assembly dimensions

Changing assembly dimensions

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hello everyone, I have made an assembly of a machine in Solid Edge and want to change make the whole assembly bigger. That is, I want to proportionally change the dimensions of all the parts involved without having to assemble them all over again. is there any way of doing so? if so then please let me know.
thank you

RE: Changing assembly dimensions

It may depend on the complexity of your parts & assy, but I believe you could use Family of parts to create scaled up versions of each part, & then substitue each part in the assy.


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RE: Changing assembly dimensions

Be aware of transforming your sub-assemblies into family of assembly because if you have made some inter-part copies inside your main assembly using those sub-assemblies SE doesn't recognise that it's the same part and lose the links.

Patrick

RE: Changing assembly dimensions

Hi,

You can save your asm as a *.sat file (make sure you select the correct units in options). Then edit the sat file with notepad and change the number 1 at the beginning of the 3rd line by the scale factor (2 for example if you want an assembly that's twice as big. if there is a decimal write "1.5" for example). Save the modified sat file and open it in SE (again, make sure you select the correct units in options).

This way, you still have an assembly file and it's scaled up (or down). The only problem is that you have to redo all the assembly relationship if you need them. Also, this creates a whole new set of files with different names.

HTH

Fred

RE: Changing assembly dimensions

Quote (manrishi):

... I want to proportionally change the dimensions of all the parts involved without having to assemble them all over again. is there any way of doing so?

manrishi

Are all your parts in the assembly are having Ground relationships? Other than that, I don't see any reason to reassemble the parts after changing the dimensions.

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