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?
Anyone?






RE: Edrawings subassembly
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
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RE: Edrawings subassembly
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
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RE: Edrawings subassembly
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.