Cut & Paste Solids to Create Multi-Body Part

[Mike_Fox]

After migrating my project from MDT2009 to Inventor 2010, every solid body in MDT became a part file in INV.  If I were modeling from scratch, some of the .IPTs should be multibody parts.  Is there any way to cut & paste a solid from one part to another to create a multibody part?  I’m not talking about deriving a new part from the source parts.  The end result should be a multibody part with all sketches intact and all solids fully editable, as if I had modeled them as a multibody part right from the beginning.

I’ve attached a simple example of two separate parts that should be combined into one multibody part, as shown in the .JPG file.  Can it be done without deriving the parts?

Thanks - Mike

[JDMather]

Then Sculpt (flood fill) to join as solid (might have to remove a common face).

Attach the two files here if you can't figure it out.

[bcrowell]

Unfortunately I can't attach the files (proprietary).

The Sculpt filled the work surface easily, but without having an option to create a new solid, so it won't move within the part- it is restricted to where it derived it, which also didn't have any positioning options.

[JDMather]

Check the SDK Position and Scale tool.

or

create an Assembly file and derive that as a solid combined.

If you have trouble coming up with a technique -- attach a couple of dummy files that can be used to demonstrate.

[bcrowell]

I ended up sticking with the files I had (single parts from derived assemblies).  The changes required were just performed on the existing component.