SOLID BODY MANAGEMENT

[mjc_design]

After some help with multi solid parts if possible.

I have a complex multi body part (100+), which i will use to drive an assembly that i will later create. As it turns out, some of the pieces are actually identical. When it comes to doing the drawing, parts list etc.. these will need to appear with the same part number, parts list entry etc...

How do people generally handle this when they create their assembly from a multi body part?

I guess i could create all the solid bodies, and then later on replace any that are duplicates. Seems a messy way of doing things, and it would be easy to end with part numbers out of sequence (ie. gaps where duplicate parts have been replaced).

Thanks in advance

[admaiora]

Hi Mjc,

you can do in different ways.

here one

[mjc_design]

Thanks. This is certainly one way i could do things, but does mean i end up creating a lot more part files than i actually need (i am likely to have a lot of duplicates, as i am doing a large steel structure where a lot of cross members will be the same).

If i'm a bit more consertative when i create my assembly using make components, then hopefully i can miss out the ones i think are duplicates. Then i can copy, pattern, mirror etc...

Unless you had any other ways?

[Anonymous]

Glad I stopped in to read. Thanks for the video Admaiora....learned something new.