Has anyone found a functionality to do that??
Do not reply with the copy/cut and paste solution; that doesn't work if all the parts have different orientations about the origin.
If I understand you right you have several different CATParts that you want to merge into one CATPart?
If so you can do it by copying the part bodies for each part and placing them into a new part body inside the collector CATPart.
So in essence you are copying and pasting but partbodies not parts.
for this create one product file insert all the parts (oriented also) into the product and then make your part current and select all solid bodies and say assemble (keep the links off) so that you will get the parts in assembly position.
one more option is create a plane intersecting the part which needs to be added in a file go to gsd and take intersection of plane and solid body that body will be added to your part with ext reference isolate it to remove the link
Hi Eric,
Your solution looks very appeling; can you walk us step by step through it please? (where, how, what)
This approach is very usefull in the fabrication field when one has to machine a previously welded (assembled)product.
..and all the other 3D packages have it.
Up to R12 you may use the copy-and-paste trick with the exception that you use Paste Special and select As Result (I think). This will copy the bodies in their right location to the Part. The one problem I found is that if a part is used more than once only the last selected will contribute to the new part. To solve that, redo the operation with the missing parts.
