R9 introduced flexible assemblies. I think this is what you want. E.g.
showing the same air cylinder assembly in both extended and retracted mode.
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"rstadler" wrote in message
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> I'm trying to do the following:
>
> I have MainAssembly1.iam and MainAssembly2.iam
> Each of these main assemblies contain a subassembly call SubAssembly.iam -
with me so far.
>
> SubAssembly.iam for the sake of simplicity contains three parts,
PartA.ipt, PartB.ipt and PartC.ipt (in the real world there are many parts
making up this subassembly) - still with me?
>
> Now the question - I want to place SubAssembly.iam under each of the two
main assemblies, but I want PartA.ipt to be in a different location in
MainAssembly1.iam then in MainAssembly2.iam.
>
> The only way that I have been able to do this is to create two different
subassembly iam files (one with PartA.ipt in one location and one with
PartA.ipt in another location).
>
> Background info:
> The main assembly is an adjustable/universal loading mechanism that we use
on several of our machines. The loading mechanism has about 200 parts.
When I add this universal loading mechanism to our various machines, I want
to be able to set the adjustable components to the correct location for that
particular machine without having to create a new subassembly for each
configuration.
>
> Can this be done or have I confused everyone?