making group in assembly

[Anonymous]

How can I make groups for similar components of assembly such as picture below?

thanks

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hmmm. . The only way that I can think of would be to make a sub-assembly. Create a separate assembly and place all those parts into it, then you would still have to apply all your constraints there, and then place that assembly into a larger assembly and it would display in the tree the way you want it to, but you would have to make any edits to that sub-assembly in its own file, not the larger assembly. So doing that has it's pros & cons. For what appears to be a set of stairs, it would probably work out ok, you're not going to drive any of those constraints or anything like that, they are just stairs sitting there. You can assemble the individual steps to the sides how you want them, call that assembly something like "staircase assy" or whatever you want, then when you put it in your larger assembly instead of having stair 1 stair 2 etc. in the tree, you'll have the "stair assembly" and move on. Hope this helps.

[nannerdw]

You could also put the components into a folder in your assembly. Select multiple parts in the model tree, right click, and "Add to New Folder."

[Anonymous]

This is the real answer. Inventor calls them Folders instead of Groups.

[mdavis22569 · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure what you mean by group ....

However you can do a few things ...

1) a folder ..you pick everything you want and you RMB in the browser and pick the folder option..and it'll move everything picked into it. Or you can drag them in. It will keep all of the constraints...

2) Make a sub assembly IAM from the main Assembly.  You can pick everything and go to the Browser again and RMB pick Demote

[-niels-]

Not to offend, but both you and ed.mccracken are giving answers that were already given to a topic from 2013...
which the OP already picked an answer for...

[mdavis22569]

<<<<<< didn't read the date ...just was answering ...now that's funny!  I'm actually laughing with a bit of a red face ...

[SBix26]

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@-niels- wrote:
Not to offend, but both you and ed.mccracken are giving answers that were already given to a topic from 2013...
which the OP already picked an answer for...

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... although Michael's answer was more complete, giving two options, and for option 2, giving a much better procedure than the original answer.  Might even want to mention that demoting into a subassembly keeps most or all of the constraints.

I'd say one of the EEs ought to mark Michael's answer as a solution.

Sam B

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[-niels-]

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@sbixler wrote:

... although Michael's answer was more complete, giving two options, and for option 2, giving a much better procedure than the original answer.  Might even want to mention that demoting into a subassembly keeps most or all of the constraints.

I'd say one of the EEs ought to mark Michael's answer as a solution.

Sam B

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I'll agree on that, so marked as second solution.

It was just the resurrection of an old(er) topic with solution that i found a bit unnecessary.