Good day fellow 3D wizards,
After 5 years my manager decided that there are too many parts in a single assembly and wants me to slim down the main assembly into 10 - 15 sub assemblies.
Is there an easy way to do this? Without having to build complete new sub assemblies or shooting down an 5 year old model.
I have been trying to add an assembly and dragging parts into that but that messes up all the mates, patterns and mirrored parts.
Kevin,
Without knowing the ASM's or how they are constructed and how much it relies, if at all, on top down, skeletal parts, virtual parts, etc...
it's near impossible to give you a concrete answer.
The best I can think of, and that you no doubt have thought about too, is instead of adding an ASM and dragging parts into that do it the other way around.
Make copies of the original main ASM. In each copy delete certain stuff so that each new copy of the main becomes an interdependent ASM with no overlap with another copy and then make a new main ASM consisting of those.