A Mfg Part Inside an Assembly

[quest4k]

Good after noon, I hope that I can explain this correctly. I want to create an assembly, but one part in the assembly is a manufactured part and it is a separate rooute step in the assembly. Basically it is a shaft, with a few parts on it. I don't want to create a phantom parts for this because each one of these files is tied to our main dbase. I hope that someone out there understands what I am doing and can tell me how to do it or even if it can be done. Thank you in advance for any assistance.

 

[quest4k]

Ok, after play with this monster for a couple of hours now, I have three of the four total parts correctly located and mated. The fourth part seems almost impossible to do. With I first import the part, it is backwards. I have gotten it to flip 180 degrees, but then I can not add any more mating conditions to it. So close but yet so far away. Any suggestions on this last part? Thanks.

 

[quest4k]

A second problem I have discovered. I supressed all of the previous configurations and then imported the parts. when I went back to the previous configurations, the parts still appear, why? thanks again for any suggestions.

 

[rfus]

Use planes. Use correct configuration of your display states correctly. Use tutorials.

These are different questions from you initial question about boms and assembly structure. Use a new thread.

RFUS

 

[quest4k]

thank you for the response, rfus, but these are continuations from the initial responses and the problems that developed from those responses. And yes, I did try planes and nothing there helped, you can only flip the part or mate the part and one cancelles out the other. And yes I have been very carefull about which configuration I am in. Thanks again for the suggestions.

 

[quest4k]

Oh my God, I have dumb lucked my way into the answer. Thanks anyway for all of the help.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I'm still trying to decipher the question but what was the answer anyway?


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[quest4k]

Well it is atwo part answer. First when parts are imported, the supress in a configuration does not see it and you have to manually suppress each part in each configuration, but then it will work correctly. Secondonce the other part in imported, the you apply the concentric constraint and the click the alignment to get it to flip and then you click the add and add the coincident restraint. Now everything is well and good and the different configurations work on different layers of the drawing. Does any of that make sense? Well anyway, I now have what looks like one part manufacture and three more part were assemblied into it, for one complete part. Well, it works with our main computer system and I guess that is all that really matters. Thanks to all for the advice.