Copy Assemblies

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I made a assembly and want to make some identical copies of it. When I try to copy it, it just makes a new type for the asembly. The assembly should be marked with Type Mark and taged in my views, so I just want to have more instances of it, not different types...

Anoyne who knows how to do this? I think this was pretty striaght forward in the earlier versions, but seems to be a problem in 2016....

-Marius-

[L.Maas]

I have not seen this behaviour in 2016. Maybe it is depending on the components in the assembly?

What I have seen is that a warning message "Edits caused an assembly to match an existing assembly type and inherit a new name."

After that when I look in the project browser there is still only one assembly mentioned.

[Anonymous]

Hmm..

When I make the assembly as an generic model I get the same warning message as you, and I only have one assembly family in my browser. But if I do the same thing as a structural connection, it makes another assembly family right away?! Bug? 

Marius

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

I looked at assembly of structural connection component. I do not see that behaviour.

I expect that there is something in the assembly that forces parts in the assembly to be changed.

For example if parts in your assembly join with something that is not part of your assembly then during the copying this joint will be disconnected whereby the copied assembly becomes different from the original and thus becomes a new assembly

[Anonymous]

I just made a structural connection component as an assembly and copied it, and it worked out the way it should. So I think you are right about your conclusion. It has to be a part in the assembly that triggers it. Just a strange thing that it didn't happened to the generic models assembly.... 

Thanks!