Copied Assembly

[nonhlanhlaYJ48B]

Hello everyone, hope you are doing well

I'm looking for some help, I created an assembly for a manure conveyor and then I copied that assembly into a different folder. The issue I'm having is that every time I change the size of the copied assembly my original assembly also changes.

My question : is there anyway to unlink the 2 assemblies.

Side Note- I have tried changing the name of the copied assembly, I even went as far as changing the names of the components that create the assembly 🥲...I don't know what else to do

[ampster40]

What steps were taken exactly to create the assembly copy?

[James_Willo]

Hi, we had a similar question asked earlier this week, there are good suggestions in this thread. 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/to-copy-and-change-name-of-derive-part/m-p/12729359#M9...

[NigelHay]

If the 2 assemblies contain the same parts, changing one would change both. The part you change needs to be unique to the assembly you are changing. You could copy the part to be changed to a different filename then substitute it in the assembly you are changing.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I believe you need to use Copy Design workflow to create a completely independent dataset. Please google "Autodesk Inventor Copy Design." There are multiple ways to do that.

Many thanks!

[nonhlanhlaYJ48B]

Thank you so much for the responses

I managed to figure out what I did wrong. What I was doing was copying the entire assembly and the separate parts into another folder but what I was supposed to do is use "Save copy as" so that the copy can be its own stand-alone assembly

Thank you for all your help 🙂

[James_Willo · Accepted solution]

Remember that save copy is only copying the top level assembly, it'll still link to all the child parts and sub assemblies. You can move things, but changing the size will affect all assemblies that use those parts. 

To do this safely you need Vault copy design, iLogic copy design or design assistant as linked in the thread above.