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Join two parts to make new part

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guinness
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Join two parts to make new part

Is this possible? We do alot of retrofits where we know the geometry of an old piece of equipment and we need to mate it to a new piece of equipment. I have made files in Auto cad that conatin the first few inches of old and new equipment and as we get orders I open the files and basically connect the dots. For this to work in inventor, I will need to place two assemblies in another assembly file and join certain parts to make new unique parts. Our reseller was stumped on this one. Is there a way to do this?
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Anonymous
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Look into deriving the existing part into a new one.

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"guinness" wrote in message news:f11ef36.-1@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Is this possible? We do alot of retrofits where we know the geometry of an old piece of
equipment and we need to mate it to a new piece of equipment. I have made files in Auto
cad that conatin the first few inches of old and new equipment and as we get orders I open
the files and basically connect the dots. For this to work in inventor, I will need to
place two assemblies in another assembly file and join certain parts to make new unique
parts. Our reseller was stumped on this one. Is there a way to do this?
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Anonymous
in reply to: guinness

look into derive parts. Wow your reseller was
stumped????


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Is
this possible? We do alot of retrofits where we know the geometry of an old
piece of equipment and we need to mate it to a new piece of equipment. I have
made files in Auto cad that conatin the first few inches of old and new
equipment and as we get orders I open the files and basically connect the
dots. For this to work in inventor, I will need to place two assemblies in
another assembly file and join certain parts to make new unique parts. Our
reseller was stumped on this one. Is there a way to do
this?
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Anonymous
in reply to: guinness

As everyone has said: derived parts are the
solution. Specifically, you will probably want to work with copies of your
original parts/assemblies - then take the two assemblies, place and
position them as needed into a new/empty assembly. The demote the two parts
into a new (in-place) subassembly.

 

Then open a new, empty part - exit sketch - select
the derive part command, then select the (previously saved) in-place subassembly
you created above.

 

This operation will merge the two parts into a
single part - to which you can subsequently add additional
features.

 

G

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