Swap subassembly in existing Assembly

[Anonymous]

Civil 3D 2008.
How do you swap a subassembly with another subassembly in an existing Assembly? At the moment I am deleting the outer subassemblies and the one in question, then recreating - there must be a better way.

[Anonymous]

This is what I do. I am sure there is resistance to this method, but so far
(knock on papyrus) it has worked "perfectiley". Before I delete the outer
subassemblies I always copy them individually right below (or above), then I
re-attach after I drag in my new one.

Bill

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Civil 3D 2008.
How do you swap a subassembly with another subassembly in an existing
Assembly? At the moment I am deleting the outer subassemblies and the one in
question, then recreating - there must be a better way.

[Anonymous]

That's the method I use as well. There's not much better unfortunately.

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[Anonymous]

That makes sense. As I continue to use Civ 3D I am finding that solutions are far simpler than I expected.
Thanks for this one.
Did anybody add "Referencing Assemblies" to the Civ 3D wish list, or am I the only user that would like this functionality?

[Anonymous]

Better than referencing, you can add whole assemblies to the tool pallettes. So just like you drag a subassembly off the tool pallette, you can drag the whole assembly into any open drawing, without doing any data shortcuts and drefing.

[Anonymous]

There is a better way.

Select the subassembly that is to be swapped in, then click/type Replace on the Command Line and select the subassembly that is to be swapped out. C3D inserts the new one in place of the old.

[sboon]

Fair warning, some of us get annoyed when you post to a thread as old as this one.

Steve
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[joantopo]

I don´t understand why there is not a "Replace" button in the context ribbon (and context menu) when we select a subassembly...

In fact, I told this in IdeaStation:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-civil-3d-ideastation/replace-subassembly-selecting-assembly/i...

[joantopo]

@Anonymous

Sorry, I am trying to follow your steps but the command: Replace , doesn´t exist.

I Think that you are talking about choosing subassembly from Tool Palette while I refer to choose it from the drawing.

[Anonymous]

Sorry I didn't make that clearer.

You first select (from the Tool Palette) the subassembly that you want to swap in. One of the command options is Replace, which shows in the command line or, with dynamic input turned on, if you press the down arrow. Either way, select Replace and then click on the subassembly that you want to replace. The subassembly is replaced and there are a couple of prompts for options after that.

[russelltnelson]

A subassembly can't be replaced when it is a part of an assembly that is being referenced. 

What works for me is to copy the entire assembly near the original. Then drag the desired subassembly onto the new assembly and follow the prompts to replace the subassembly.  Verify the parameters of the replaced subassembly meet your design criteria.