Sharing Assemblies?

[daryl.riggins]

Hi,

If I've created the world's best assembly of 28-ft back to back curb road cross-section complete with sidewalks and rockin' daylight links, how do I preserve this assembly for the benefit of my coworkers? Is it adding it to a tool palette? Saving to a common drawing for future copy/paste? Some other way?

[doni49]

Once you've used a custom SA, every user who needs to open your dwg file needs to have the SA "installed" on their PC.  To do so, you have to "Import" the subassembly on each PC.

IMHO, this is the biggest problem with using SAC.

I spent HOURS upon HOURS learning to use SAC and developing a custom SA.  But then once I learned of this hinderence, I've started avoiding it as best I can.  Using SAC is now a LAST RESORT proposition.

If your assembly can be done using the OOTB subassemblies, I'd suggest doing that instead.  If you do, you can put the entire assembly in a block.  Then users can insert that block into their dwg file and automatically have access to it.

[wfberry]

Don:

I did not see where he customized anything.

Bill

[daryl.riggins]

Don and Bill,

It's true, I'm not working with anything customized at this point. It may be the case in the future.

What I'm hearing so far is that an assembly can be saved as a block and shared. Does your team have a preferred way for sharing commonly used blocks?

[doni49 · Accepted solution]

My bad.  When I saw "I created....", my mind went with "customized". 

Now that you said this, I've re-read the message and agree that he just said he created the assembly which can be done using OOTB subassemblies.

Sorry.

So back to your original question:  If you've created an assembly using OOTB subassemblies, then you don't need to put them on a pallette (unless you WANT to).  You can put the assembly in a block which the users can INSERT as needed.

I think that would be the simplest way.

[doni49 · Accepted solution]

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@daryl.riggins wrote:
Don and Bill,

It's true, I'm not working with anything customized at this point. It may be the case in the future.

What I'm hearing so far is that an assembly can be saved as a block and shared. Does your team have a preferred way for sharing commonly used blocks?

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We store blocks on the network and insert them from there.  I use the Design Center to get a preview of them before I actually insert them.