Parts to a new assembly?

[cfee]

I have a fairly component-dense assembly. I'd like to "pick" a few pieces and send them out to a new assembly. I know I can save-as to the desire new name, and delete components I don't need; at least that's how I've been doing it up until now. But THIS one is way too dense to use that approach. I'd like to just select a few pieces of the assembly to send out to a new and seperate assembly. Suggestions?
Tks-
C. Fee

 

[beachcomber]

hi cfee,
You want the 'Transfer' command - it's on the Assembly Commands toolbar, and looks like 4 orange squares with a small arrow pointing right.
Have a look in Help for transfer or restructuring assemblies.

beachcomber.

 

[beachcomber]

cfee,
Forgot to mention that when you do transfer, SE will do it's best to maintain relationships between the parts that are transferred, and between the new assy and your existing assy.
Obviously there is going to be some re-work.
Not sure about V16 & 17, but earlier versions could not transfer patterned parts, so you had to drop or delete the pattern.

bc.

 

[cfee]

BC-
Thanks! That's just what I needed!

I have another related question-
I've BEEN taking advantage of S-E's ability to "Copy & Paste" parts from one assembly to another, with great success. HOWEVER this morning I tried again, and I got an XP error saying that the item wasn't "Collected - Item not supported by Office Clipboard" has someone (either in I-T or myself unknowingly) made a change that I'm not aware of?

This is CRITICAL as I make EXTENSIVE use of prior engineering to save time on a project, which is the whole S-E point! Seriously, any help on this will be greatly appreciated.

C.Fee

 

[beachcomber]

cfee,
If you're regularly re-using parts/assemblies have a look at the 'systems library' functions.
You effectively save a collection of components (parts and assemblies) as a single assembly 'system', complete with relationships.
When you place this system into a new assembly you will get all the original components as if you had placed them individually.
As for the error message, I've never seen that before.

bc