how to tranfer assembly to part?

[saneryin]

We have some product to be put online for our customers to download and assembly in their equipment.

I need the change our assembly file to a part file. Currently I am doing a quite stupid way,

step 1, save pro/e assm file to igs.
step 2, open the .igs in solidworks.
step 3, save the solidworks file into solidworks part file.
step 4, save the solidoworks part file as pro/e part file.

is there a shortcut to get this job done? I have hundreds of prole assemblies to be changed to .prt file.

Thank you for your help!

 

[saneryin]

I am searching the forum...got some idea. I will ask again if necessary. Please delete this thread. I do not want to take the forums space by writing no-sense threads.

thanks

 

[orbit03]

Can you shrinkwrap the assembly? If it isn't a big assembly, how about creating a dummy part, add that to the assembly and use merge to copy all the parts into the dummy part?

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Jason Williams
K Development, Inc.

 

[Heckler]

If you customer has Pro/E then save the assembly as a shrinkwrap file but use the option Merged Solid under creation method. But you have to have advance assembly to have the shrinkwrap option.

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Heckler
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[saneryin]

thank you orbit03 and heckler,

I tried both of your ideas, they all worked!

Heckley's method is just what I want. smaller file size, overall shape/profile appears and the customer can not pick up dimensions of every components to make drawings & send RFQ from our supplier or competitors.

 

[Hora]

Shrinkwrap is good... when you geometry is not too complex or you don't have too many parts.

A shorcut to your method:

Save asm in an IGES (flat);
Open IGES in ProE (as part);
Save the part.

This allways worked for me.

-Hora

 

[mjcole]

I've usually found that step files work better compared to iges when exporting asseblies.

You can also open the Step file and Pro/E will ask if you want to open it as a part or assembly just like with the Iges files.

 

[Hora]

mjcole,

Right, but you can't merge the assembly into a single part using step. And that was the statement.

-Hora