Formations

[gmatelich]

Is it possible to transfer a formation to a parent assembly?

[gmatelich]

What's the difference setween Instance and Contents in a formation?

[fox-myers]

Copy formation may work to "move" the formation from a subassembly to a parent assembly.

In the formations menu, click copy. Specify the subassembly and formation you initially created as the Source. For the Target, specify the asm that your want to copy the formation to and give a new formation name.

Your results are going to vary depending on how you positioned your parts in the initial formation. That is if you positioned subassemblies instead of a list of parts not all the parts are going to be in their exploded position after the copy.

Instance/Contents for formation refers to where the formation information is stored. If you select Instance, the formation is only linked to the assembly that is initially set as the owner. If you have shares of this asm you will notice that all of subparts in all of the shares will be positioned by this one formation. But if you click the owner button in the formations menu, you will see that only the intial owner as a formation (i.e. a "1" appears in the form column)

If you select Contents, the formation will be linked to all shares of the initial owner. Later you can modify the formation by editing any of the shared formation not just the initial owner and its formation. Now if you click the owner button in the formations menu, you will see that all the shared assemblies have a formation (i.e. a "1" appears in the form column)

THT

[dszostak]

In the 2006 release of CoCreate OneSpace Modeling, new 3D Configurations were implemented to replace Formations for exploded and configuration assembly states.

"First, the new "configurations" tool is fantastic. This does away with the old "formations" and "explode" goodies. This tool is very intuitive, and very powerful. Making exploded views is going to easily take 1/2 the time it previously did. Not only is the tool much easier to use, but there is an "explode" button that automatically explodes the assembly (including sub-components, if you desire) by whatever scale you want. Invariably you will need to tweak your exploded view, but this does 90% of the work with a single button click." Read more (http://www.cocreateusers.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5856).