new component from an assembly of components

[dieselguy65]

i have a bunch of components assembled into one large component.

now that i have that compnenthow iwant it,isthere a way tosave it as one big component? instead of each individual one?

it would clean up my timeline andbrowser,andithink speed up assembling it into the other large component thatwill be the other part to an assembly.

im not planning to edit this,andi wouldthinkif i needed to i couldjsut go back tothe asembly it was created from,editthat,then get latest. ormaybe i dont understand how that works.

here is the link to the part.

thanks.ihave searched,butdidnt findany answers

http://a360.co/29Ve4Uv

[masa.minohara]

Hi @dieselguy65,

Thank you for posting this! If you insert the file "Door Assembled_components" to another design for larger assembly, it will collapse the browser and timeline. Does this work for you?

[dieselguy65]

I'll give that a try this afternoon. Not sure it wIll accomplish what I'm after. Right now, when I take this large assembly made up of 40 or so components, and try to place it in the main assembly, the software basically freezes. I think it's just overwhelmed with the parts, and all the different axis they are in. I think I may even try, to just make a new component, with the outside shape of this part, and eliminate all the interior pieces, that should give the software an easier time. But I really hate that idea

[masa.minohara]

Thank you for your response. I am not sure this will meet your needs but  you can make the components as simple as one body by using the Combine command after breaking all the links. Please note that you will not be able to update the component after breaking links.

Also, you can delete the timeline by selecting "Do not capture Design History" in the right-click menu at the top node of the browser., then go back to "Capture Design History" mode.

[daniel_lyall]

@dieselguy65 your doing it the hard way use pattern feature a lot of the parts are the same and are spaced evenly so just draw one and pattern it.

you just have to do some user parameters to do it so you know what is what.

and I would just do one half then mirour it 

[dieselguy65]

Yes, I patterned the horizontal and diagonal pieces. I didn't pattern the vertical uprights, because a few of those are very subject to change. I'm going back and try the combine and break links idea. The thing is just so many parts, that when I insert it into the bigger assembly it freezes up the software. I really was not expecting that to happen. I figured it would handle it with ease. I may try the mirror just to see, but I figured I would still need to move the diagonal pieces into place.
Thank you

[daniel_lyall]

there is a few way you can do it, if the parts spacing is going to be even, even if you may change where they are and if they stay even, use a pattern set it to spacing and have the amount +1 as a user parameter then the spacing will be length / amount-1.

another way to do it is have a sketch of the door with everything to size and spacing, this sketch you can do the changes on and have the parts attached to the sketch with joints.

the sketch you can do it in a component or not, it's what you would call a holding sketch, it's just another way to do the same thing. it just makes it easier to play with idea's of how you would want it to work and look