Making an Assembly with Derived Components: Component Naming Issue

[noahlmil]

I wish I had caught this problem earlier but didn't notice until I started making drawings.

I am making an assembly of kitchen cabinets using derived components.  Each base component (cabinet) is an assembly of component parts (side, front, back) that are are labeled accordingly.

When I derive all the cabinet assemblies into the kitchen all of the components of the cabinet are changed to bodies in the kitchen assembly and the components names are lost and replaced with Body 1, Body 2, and so on.  

Is there a way to get the component names to follow the derived components into the final assembly of all the parts?

Base component cabinet assembly with named components.

 Derived component assembly as it appears in the assembly of cabinets.

 

[TrippyLighting]

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@noahlmil wrote:

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When I derive all the cabinet assemblies into the kitchen all of the components of the cabinet are changed to bodies in the kitchen assembly and the components names are lost and replaced with Body 1, Body 2, and so on. .. 

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That  should not be the case. Derived components should also be components in the target design. 

[noahlmil]

The derived component (the cabinet assembly) is created as a component in the target design as seen in the second image but all of the individual components that make up the derived component are changed to bodies in the target design.  Since all of the names of the components in the original assembly are lost it makes traking parts difficult.

So either I have made a mistake when using the derive command or is this just the way fusion handels derived subassemblies?

If I need to provide more information or images please let me know as I would really like to find a solution to this.  It would make my workflow so much smoother.

Thanks.

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

In your original post, you are showing two different Sub-Assemblies for comparison.  In the first image you are showing the sub-assembly BaseCab which contains numerous Components.  In second image, one you say is from an assembly with the Derived sub-assembly named EB1 Blind Corner.  I would suspect if you go into your base model, before Deriving, you will find that EB1 Blind Corner sub-assembly shows the same bodies you are seeing in the derived assembly.  Give a screen shot of the SAME sub-assembly, expanded, before deriving and after because I think you will see they are the same.

Here is a video to back-up my observation:

[TrippyLighting]

Another question is whether deriving these is the correct workflow, or if linking these is better.

[noahlmil]

Ok I see where I messed up.  I selected the components to derive incorrectly.  Instead of selecting the subassembly in the file structure I used a selection box in the drawing space. I wish I had noticed this earlier.

Thank you for helping me figure that out.  I have just started using this software and am self taught so there is a bit of trial and error, mostly error.  

Here is what I did that resulted in my problem.

Here is the way you demonstrated which works perfectly.

 

[noahlmil]

I have not used the linking feature yet so I will need to do some research on that.  I have been using derive successfully with some smaller projects but this is the first time I have noticed this issue.  Thanks for the suggestion.