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how to tranfer assembly to part?

how to tranfer assembly to part?

how to tranfer assembly to part?

(OP)
We have some product to be put online for our customers to download and assembly in their equipment.

I need the change our assembly file to a part file. Currently I am doing a quite stupid way,

step 1, save pro/e assm file to igs.
step 2, open the .igs in solidworks.
step 3, save the solidworks file into solidworks part file.
step 4, save the solidoworks part file as pro/e part file.

is there a shortcut to get this job done? I have hundreds of prole assemblies to be changed to .prt file.

Thank you for your help!

RE: how to tranfer assembly to part?

(OP)
I am searching the forum...got some idea. I will ask again if necessary. Please delete this thread. I do not want to take the forums space by writing no-sense threads.

thanks

RE: how to tranfer assembly to part?

Can you shrinkwrap the assembly?  If it isn't a big assembly, how about creating a dummy part, add that to the assembly and use merge to copy all the parts into the dummy part?

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Jason Williams
K Development, Inc.

RE: how to tranfer assembly to part?

If you customer has Pro/E then save the assembly as a  shrinkwrap file but use the option Merged Solid under creation method.  But you have to have advance assembly to have the shrinkwrap option.

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Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
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RE: how to tranfer assembly to part?

(OP)
thank you orbit03 and heckler,

I tried both of  your ideas, they all worked!

Heckley's method is just what I want. smaller file size, overall shape/profile appears and the customer can not pick up dimensions of every components to make drawings & send RFQ from our supplier or competitors.

RE: how to tranfer assembly to part?

Shrinkwrap is good... when you geometry is not too complex or you don't have too many parts.

A shorcut to your method:

Save asm in an IGES (flat);
Open IGES in ProE (as part);
Save the part.

This allways worked for me.

-Hora

RE: how to tranfer assembly to part?

I've usually found that step files work better compared to iges when exporting asseblies.

You can also open the Step file and Pro/E will ask if you want to open it as a part or assembly just like with the Iges files.

RE: how to tranfer assembly to part?

mjcole,

Right, but you can't merge the assembly into a single part using step. And that was the statement.

-Hora

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