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Multibody Part from Assembly

Multibody Part from Assembly

Multibody Part from Assembly

(OP)
I have assemblies that i download from suppliers, liek skf bearings. They are great and very detailed. The problem is sometimes they are too detailed. A large bearing may be an assembly of 100 parts. Add a few bearings and my assembly goes from 20 parts to 420 parts.

I want to change the bearing assembly to 3 parts instead of 100. The housing, the seal, and the roller/sleeve part. The roller/sleeve part is the one that has 50-100 parts as it has each roller modeled.

If I select all 50 inside parts, and "SAVE AS" and select part instead of assembly, it converts everything to surfaces instead of solid bodies. Mass properties continue to work, but section views do not, which unfortunatly I need.

Does anyone know a better way to combine an assembly into a single part?

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Randy

RE: Multibody Part from Assembly

Open assy, save as part. Or use "combine".

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)

RE: Multibody Part from Assembly

In the Save As dialog there are option buttons down at the bottom for:

Exterior Faces
Exterior Components
All Components

You want to select "All Components".  You can then even delete individual bodies out of the newly created part if you don't need them and want to free up some resources.  Since they're just solid dumb bodies you won't screw up mate references or patterns or anything.

RE: Multibody Part from Assembly

(OP)
Handleman, thanks.
I never noticed that checkbox before, that solves the problem.

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Randy

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