How to make an assy revision?

[Thomas Lonnermo]

Is there any way to make a revision of an assy? If I try to replace one detail in an assy I end up starting from the beginning, picking up every detail from the databas and place it in the solid model. Thats very heavy when you have 50 details in an assy. Wy isn't there a copy command for models like there is for drawings? We have asked CoCreate in Germany but they have not answer us. Is there any more who have the same problem?

[Glenn Reid]

I am not sure if I understand your problem exactly. Let's say that your original assembly is called "A" and the new assembly is to be called "B". Assembly "B" is the same as "A" except for on part. If you use the copy assembly command to copy assembly "A" to "B" everything appears to work fine. You must look very closely to recognize that all of the components of assembly "B" are actually new parts with the same names as the parts in assembly "A". This presents a real problem. At this point you have multiple parts with the same name but different internal id's. There is a way that you can copy assembly "A" to "B" and even carry over any drawing layouts to the new assembly. Try the following: 1. Copy assembly "A" to "B" using the SolidDesigner COPY command on the PART & ASSEMBLY menu. 2. Delete all of the parts out of assembly "B". By performing this step you are removing all of the parts with incorrect internal id's. 3. Change the ownership of all of the parts in assembly "A" to have "B" as the owner. By performing this step you are retaining the original internal id's of the children of assembly "A". 4. Replace any parts you want in assembly "B" with new parts. 5. You must now add any new components to all views in your layouts using the ADD COMPS command on the MODIFY VIEW menu. Following this you can update your layouts. 6. You may now file assembly "B" into WorkManager. 7. At this point I would suggest that you DELETE ALL from your SolidDesigner session and then reload assembly "B" from WorkManager just to make sure it will load. I don't know if this addressed your problem or not but I hope this is what you were after. Good Luck