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How do you bring assembly features (i.e. extruded cut thru multiple parts)into a part drawing? Or...how do you bring those features back to the part file? Is it possible?
Thanks,
Matt
Thanks,
Matt






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It seems like there should be a feature somewhere in a part or drawing file like "Import Assembly features". Seems pretty simple to me. Maybe I should just write my own CAD software...OR I could learn the CAD I use.
Matt
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You can do this by either creating a skeleton sketch in the assembly and then edit each part incontext, relating the part sketches to the assembly skeleton sketch...
or
Create your cut in one of your parts, open the assembly and edit each part incontext and relate the cuts to the cut of that first part.
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Sometimes it is easier to make an assembly level extrusion so everything fits perfectly. I don't know how to make those extrusions defined in the part so I just make a configuration with everything hidden except the part I need. I have to do this for each part with the extrusion. Than I can put the assembly in a drawing as if it was just the part.
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Matt
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You can't make extrusions in an assembly... only cut extrusions.
(In your post) It sounds like your doing waaay to much work to accomplish this.
All you have to do is edit the part and the assembly stage then convert and enitity or create a new sketch derive it off other geometry in the assembly (other parts, planes or assembly planes, etc...). If your other components are not pickable (transperent., etc...) all that is, is a setting in Tool\Options - You will have to edit each part but you can use the previous part feature or sketch, etc...
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Assembly features are something actually created at the assembly stage. So is it something you would, say, drill through all the parts in the assembly on the real thing?
You have to look at it as mimicking the real world.
If you are going to manufacture the features on the detail parts before they are assembled, them you want to design the individual parts to match each other. (As opposed to match drill them after assembly.) That is where editing the parts in the context of the assembly comes in. You are editing the individual part (not the assembly) but referencing features of other parts as they correlate to each other in the assembly. That way one part still changes the other.
From there all the tricks above should fall into place.
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If you want to make multiple cuts through several parts then you I would do as Madmango first suggested "Hole Series" You can make a holes series that reflects back to the parts at the assembly. Otherwise I would probably use multiple in-contexted features.
flyingblue - http://www.scottjbaugh.com/Design_Portfolio/SW%20Models... - Check out Example of In-contexting
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