5 Replies Latest reply on Jun 5, 2015 4:06 PM by Mike Price

Move in-context relations from a subassembly to an upper assembly?

Jamil Snead Jun 5, 2015 2:31 PM

I am building an assembly and one of the parts has in-context relations in a subassembly. This is all working great, and now I have that subassembly in an upper assembly and I realized I need to add a new in-context relation from the main assembly to the part. I want to avoid having relations to multiple assemblies, so is there a way to transfer all of the relations that were built in context of the subassembly over to the main assembly? All of the parts that were related to are still present in the main assembly. After all, the subassembly exists in the main assembly.

I know I can break all of the old relations and then form new ones in the main assembly but obviously I'd rather not. Thanks in advance.

Re: Move in-context relations from a subassembly to an upper assembly?

John Stoltzfus Jun 5, 2015 2:38 PM (in response to Jamil Snead)

Kind of a difficult call there, here is what comes to my mind first....

Be very careful of circular rebuilds, I'm sure you understand that, so I would suggest adding the same Sketch part in each of your sub assemblies and also the main assembly. Then the part that you need to edit, relate everything to that sketch part, to have the other pcs follow your changes, you may have to go back a few levels and relate the part sketches to the sketch part. Might be some work in doing that, but I know you will end up with a stable model.
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  Jamil Snead Jun 5, 2015 2:52 PM (in response to John Stoltzfus)
  
  In this case I am not using a sketch part. I started with a main component (an enclosure body) and then as I add components I add in-context relations as needed to the case and other parts that are already there. I have a subassembly for the enclosure assembly and all of the parts that make up the enclosure are there with relations to each other. After building that subassembly and then starting the main assembly I realized that I need one of the enclosure parts to have a clearance cutout for a component in the main assembly, even though that part already has in-context relations in the enclosure assembly.
  
  Theoretically it doesn't seem like a difficult thing for the software to accomplish, I just don't know if that functionality has been implemented.
  
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    John Stoltzfus Jun 5, 2015 3:10 PM (in response to Jamil Snead)
    
    It can definitely handle the features, it's just a personal thing I shy away from if at all possible.
    
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      Jamil Snead Jun 5, 2015 3:26 PM (in response to John Stoltzfus)
      
      This is one of my first actual ventures into in-context modeling. My plan is to build it with all kinds of in-context relations and features and then once the design is complete and ready to build I'll break all of the relations and fully define each part individually. I don't want to keep the in-context relations in the long run.
      
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Re: Move in-context relations from a subassembly to an upper assembly?

Mike Price Jun 5, 2015 4:06 PM (in response to Jamil Snead)

Jamil,

You cannot move in-context relationships around like that without manually going in and changing them.
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