After migrating my project from MDT2009 to Inventor 2010, every solid body in MDT became a part file in INV. If I were modeling from scratch, some of the .IPTs should be multibody parts. Is there any way to cut & paste a solid from one part to another to create a multibody part? I’m not talking about deriving a new part from the source parts. The end result should be a multibody part with all sketches intact and all solids fully editable, as if I had modeled them as a multibody part right from the beginning.
I’ve attached a simple example of two separate parts that should be combined into one multibody part, as shown in the .JPG file. Can it be done without deriving the parts?
Thanks - Mike
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Then Sculpt (flood fill) to join as solid (might have to remove a common face).
Attach the two files here if you can't figure it out.
Unfortunately I can't attach the files (proprietary).
The Sculpt filled the work surface easily, but without having an option to create a new solid, so it won't move within the part- it is restricted to where it derived it, which also didn't have any positioning options.
Check the SDK Position and Scale tool.
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create an Assembly file and derive that as a solid combined.
If you have trouble coming up with a technique -- attach a couple of dummy files that can be used to demonstrate.
I ended up sticking with the files I had (single parts from derived assemblies). The changes required were just performed on the existing component.
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