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Modify assembly without changing all linked components.

jon.hunterLBZCS — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 19:08:53 GMT

I'm designing a wooden shipping crate and I have an assembly that's made up of a piece of plywood and 3 identical 1x4 boards. Once assembled, I need to drill 2 holes in the center 1x4 through the plywood to mount a bracket. When I go to the assembly level and extrude holes they are copied to all of the 1x4s, not just the center 1x4. I know that I can create a separate unlinked part that has holes drilled, but then that messes up my BOM/parts list. Any insight would be appreciated.

Re: Modify assembly without changing all linked components.

dcAWMGX — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 22:00:44 GMT

If you extrude a hole in a component then it will appear in all instances of that component. Copy the component, extrude the hole in that and replace the ones that need to have the hole.

Re: Modify assembly without changing all linked components.

jon.hunterLBZCS — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 13:05:25 GMT

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that make the component with holes a different PN than the components without holes? Ideally I keep the same PN for BOM/structure purposes.

Re: Modify assembly without changing all linked components.

dcAWMGX — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 13:16:13 GMT

Then you need a dirty work around 🙂 draw both as bodies inside the same component and then hide the body you don´t need at the assembly level.

I didn´t test this, so I´m not 100% sure it will work.

Re: Modify assembly without changing all linked components.

dav_stoneb — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:15:54 GMT

Great Post!!!!

I was having the exact same issue with an internal component. I exported the component and edited it by creating copied bodies and included the features I desired. I then replaced the internal components with the new external component, and just hid the bodies as required for each instance.

Worked great! Thanks so much!!!

Re: Modify assembly without changing all linked components.

TrippyLighting — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 10:00:35 GMT

That certainly works, but you don't actually have to export (save copy as) those components.

You can simply:

1. use the boundary fill feature to create a 2nd body

2. then remove (not delete) the 1st body

3. refine the 2nd body

Edit: Scratch the above.

Export the component and then use Derive.

Re: Modify assembly without changing all linked components.

dav_stoneb — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:42:30 GMT

I'll give this a try. Thanks!