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Edrawings subassembly

Edrawings subassembly

Edrawings subassembly

(OP)
I have an assembly that has been converted to an edrawings file that contains ~5 BIG (many small parts) subassemblies.  I want the user to be able to manipulate these subassemblies, but currently, all of the individual components (~100) are accessible!  How do I only allow access to the larger subassemblies in the edrawings viewer?

Anyone?

RE: Edrawings subassembly

You may need to save your subassemblies as part files before creating the eDrawing.  If you do so, make sure you copy your master assembly parts to a different directory (saving your original SolidWorks parts/assemblies as they are) to do so without affecting your originals.

Use File > Find References to copy parts into a new directory, then open each subassembly you want to behave as a unified block and save/convert the subassembly into a part.  From that point, create a new eDrawing.

There could be a way of doing this within the eDrawing file, but I don't know of it.


Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.

RE: Edrawings subassembly

The way Theophilus suggested is the way I do it

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
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RE: Edrawings subassembly

(OP)
Thanks all!

Although that does work, I received another reply from a colleague and he suggested the "Join" feature.

To accomplish this, I inserted a new part into the subassembly, then gave this part a single join feature which contained all the component parts.

Once finished, the subassembly acted as this single component when viewed in the master assembly.

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