Copy Assembly to new drawing?

[lbartl]

What it the best way to do this? I tried just the clipboard copy command and it didn't work, the sub assembly pieces got moved all over the drawing....
I can't seem to find an "export" assemply option. Or can I add it to a collection?

Thanks for any help.

[Anonymous]

I haven't tried this, it's just an idea. Try adding it to a tool pallette, then I will always be available. I know you can create new subassemblies and add them, but I have yet to try it with an entire assembly. Don't know if it will work.

[BrianHailey]

Drag it to your toolpalettes and then it will be available to all your drawings.



Brian Hailey
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[lbartl]

Does this work in 2009? Should have said that in my original post.

[AllenJessup]

I'd never tried this but thought now would be a good time. I tried following the directions in help but when I get to the new palette I created I get the (don't) circle with a line through it symbol. Is there a trick I'm missing? I'm running 2009 ver. 4
Allen

[Anonymous]

Allen, are you just dragging the assembly
portion?  The rest should follow.  I hope I am correct, it has been
sometime.

Bill

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I'd
never tried this but thought now would be a good time. I tried following the
directions in help but when I get to the new palette I created I get the
(don't) circle with a line through it symbol. Is there a trick I'm missing?
I'm running 2009 ver. 4
Allen

[BrianHailey]

Should work in 2009.

Brian Hailey
http://www.cad-1.com
http://www.AtYourDeskTraining.com
http://Civil3DPlus.wordpress.com

[AllenJessup]

I've tried it both ways, Bill. According to Help you're right. I should just be dragging the Assembly Baseline. I've tried selecting the baseline and just dragging that and I've tried selecting all the subassemblies and then dragging it by the baseline. Neither work.
It's not super important right now because I had a couple of minutes before lunch and read these posts and thought it was time to try it. But since C3D is all about continual learning I like to get to the root of a problem.
Allen

[Anonymous]

Hi Allen,
Are you selecting the grip to drag the assembly? If so, don't. Select the
assembly so the grips show, then pick the assembly anywhere except at the
grip, then drag it to to the palette. It may take a few seconds of hovering
over the palette for the icon to appear allowing you to drop it there.

This baffled me for quite some time until I got the hang of it.

Jeff

"AllenJessup" wrote in message news:6332411@discussion.autodesk.com...
> I've tried it both ways, Bill. According to Help you're right. I should
> just be dragging the Assembly Baseline. I've tried selecting the baseline
> and just dragging that and I've tried selecting all the subassemblies and
> then dragging it by the baseline. Neither work.
> It's not super important right now because I had a couple of minutes
> before lunch and read these posts and thought it was time to try it. But
> since C3D is all about continual learning I like to get to the root of a
> problem.
> Allen

[AllenJessup]

Hello Jeff,
That's what I've been trying. At least as far as I can tell from help and everyone's descriptions. It's like a dropgeom or I-drop. But when I get to the palette I hover over it for a few seconds and then I get the slashed circle. Puzzling.
Allen

[dalemccoy]

Hi, I know this is an old post, but I have found a method (2 versions) that works:

1. create a block of the assembly(ies) within your drawing. Open the drawing you want to place them in (keep your original file open). Open Design Center, switch to Open Drawings tab and expand the contents of the dwg that contains the assembly, select blocks from the list. Find the assembly block you just created and either drag and drop it into the active model tab of your new drawing or right click on the block and select insert block.

2. open the dwg containing the assemblies. use the WBLOCK command, select the assembly(ies) you want. save the block file to a specified location. Open the dwg you want to place the assemblies in and insert/explode the newly created block.