What Is Considered Good Practice

[Anonymous]

If you have an assembly of say 10 components Top down modeled and each of these components is machined, you quite quickly end up with a complex file since most machining has fixtures, vices chucks etc all then modeled in this one file. Is this what is commonly done? Or the approach I took which is create the assembly then export out each component and create a separate machining file ( not ideal since the components are not linked).

I am interested as to what is regarded as good practice. 

[laughingcreek · Accepted solution]

derive works for this.  allows you to have separate models for fixturing etc, but keep the components linked back to the original assembly.

[Anonymous]

I will try some assemblies this way and see what I think. Thankyou