Copy Assembly & Drawings?
Copy Assembly & Drawings?
(OP)
I know I can use the File>Find Referances to copy a complete assembly to another location. Is there a way to also copy the drawings? I would like the copied assembly and drawings to be associated with eachother, but be completely disassociated with the source assembly and drawings.
Mike Puckett
Group Leader
Los Angeles/Orange County
Solidworks User Group






RE: Copy Assembly & Drawings?
RE: Copy Assembly & Drawings?
If your files (parts, assemblies, drawings)are all contained within one (top level)folder you can copy the entire folder in win Explorer. Then go the SW explorer and rename the part and assemblies files. You can also rename the drawing files in SW explorer or win explorer. this will give you 2 seperate files (projects) with all the parts assemblies and drawings with unique names in seperate locations (folders). Its easier to do this in PDMWorks and it looks like SW 2007 is going to make this easier also.
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com (updated 1/30/06)
SW 2006 SP 3.0
RE: Copy Assembly & Drawings?
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: Copy Assembly & Drawings?
Temporarily change the name of the original assembly host directory so the parts cannot be found by SW.
Open each of the drawings in turn. The part will not be found, you find it yourself by clicking to the new part number. It should open correctly and each of the drawings can then be saved. When you are done, rename the original host directory back to what it should be.
This is crude, but has worked since SW98 or so.
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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2005 SP 4.0 (reluctant to change)
Matrox Millenium G550
AMD Athalon 1.8 GHz 512 Meg RAM
RE: Copy Assembly & Drawings?
Thanks for the input.
Mike Puckett
Group Leader
Los Angeles/Orange County
Solidworks User Group
RE: Copy Assembly & Drawings?
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
RE: Copy Assembly & Drawings?
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com (updated 1/30/06)
SW 2006 SP 3.0
RE: Copy Assembly & Drawings?
Assemblies, Models and Drawings associated with the main
Assembly. It will copy the File Structure if you wish.
Plus you set it to rename the new files. That is what I
use to copy one project to another location and it works
o.k. for me.
Cheers,
Ralph Wright, CSWP
SolidWorks 2005, SP5.0
P4, 2.53Ghz
1.5 Gb RAM
ATI Fire GL8800 Card
Windows 2000 Pro
RE: Copy Assembly & Drawings?
RE: Copy Assembly & Drawings?
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