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    Feature Driven Component Pattern - Patterning Seed Feature

    The same happens when you copy holes around a circle as in a pcd only in this case it puts a hole at the centre of the pcd. Very annoying as the hole call out wizard calls up one hole to many and the shop floor guys ask where it is or you have to open up the array and get rid of the extra hole...
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    Deleat a part in a sub assembly within a sub assembly

    Hi all and thank you for your comments Appreciate that now I and others in the company are aware of this its less likely to happen. Saving. True until saved its not permanent. However the point is the person may not realize he had deleted a part in a sub assembly. The save notice on closing...
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    Deleat a part in a sub assembly within a sub assembly

    I am not sure if closing without saving would reverse the action. I will have to test it. True we should be aware of what parts are in what assemblies but others use my assemblies for reference in their work and thats when accidents occur My VAR told me that for every one that complained an...
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    Deleat a part in a sub assembly within a sub assembly

    Just picked this up within SW2013 which has the potential for disaster if not aware of it. Its already cost me a lot of time in rebuilding some assemblies. If a sub assembly is within another sub assembly and you clicked on any part of the sub sub assembly and pressed deleat the whole sub...
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    Team working

    On the same theme as the above discussion we are using a sketch as a part inserted at the top level of other parts to drive the shape of the major components It works well although it seems the sketch has to be open and checked out of PDM before updates to the sketch will drive an update to the...
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    Team working

    Mostly as you say The 3D sketches are saved as a part and inserted as such in further parts and assemblies that become the models PDM is used to control issue control and status It is working well so its not broke and doesn't need fixing. Just happy to hear that it seems to be fairly in line...
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    Team working

    I do think its a very good way of working Its always good though to check in the forum if anyone wants to share different methods for discussion from which we can all learn
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    Team working

    We are working on a large engine with gearboxes taking drives out for various functions Different team members are working on different parts of the design. To make sure every one kept in sync and to update centrally should the design parameters change a 3D sketch file was created with key axis...
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    Extrude a sketch

    Another point in this issue is if another hole of even a tapped or drilled hole is added unlike SW which just updates in Inventor you have to not only alter the sketch and exit but then edit the feature as well and pick the new profile to add to the cut or pick the centres to add to the drilling...
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    SOLIDWORKS LINE PROBLEM

    Difficult to say for sure without an attachment However I had a similar case when I brought a cam profile into SW In a new part open the dxf as a 2D sketch exit the sketch and open a new one on the same plane Select the dxf and go to select a polyline that should join all the dxf points into 1...
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    Extrude a sketch

    Thank you gmarken. I felt I was a lone voice crying out in Inventor land. Although I feel Inventor has come a long way since 2008 when I last worked on it (and lets face it, it was certainly about time) there are still too many strange things in the program stopping effiecent working. In effect...
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    Saving a part and drawing as a new number

    To answer my own question I think it was some rogue files left in the directory from when I was experimenting This works very well this morning so thanks for the advice
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    Saving a part and drawing as a new number

    That seems to work a whole lot better I am still playing with it but why does the new copied files appear in a sub file in the new location named after the place they came from I am targetting the top level but each time it creats a new file Still seem to be getting there
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    Saving a part and drawing as a new number

    Thanks for the advice but still no luck I am on 2011 with vault The drawings are in one file and I need them in another file where I can make small detail changes to fit another purpose I open in design assistant but RHB does not show any options to rename I am surprised that this is not an...
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    Saving a part and drawing as a new number

    I know the answer to this is on here as I have seen it before but search as I may I cannot find it again I want to take a drawing and a part and I think using design assistant save them both as a new number with links to each other. The idea being to make minor changes to the part and then just...
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