Multibody problem in SolidWorks 2007

[serdart]

Hi all,

In SolidWorks 2007, I'm trying to save an assembly as a multibody part. As the tutorial says, I'm opening the "Save As" dialog box and click ".prt, .sldprt" as filetype.

The tutorial in "Help" says that 3 check boxes below should appear, but they don't!

Exterior Faces
Exterior Components
All Components

When I continue and save the assembly as part and make a drawing sheet of it, I can not create section views.

Is there anything that I'm missing or wrong? Why dont the 3 checkboxes appear?

thx

 

[Eltron]

Try selecting the items from the Feature Manager before hitting Save.

Dan

http://www.eltronresearch.com

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[Theophilus]

The newer versions have those three options to check. In v2007, I think there is an "Options" button to hit when you try to save as a part file. If so, select "all components", and when it asks whether to resolve hidden/suppressed parts, refuse that (or it will save every body in your assembly, regardless of what you have shown/resolved).

This should save a multi-body part file that can be sectioned, since the bodies will be solids instead of surfaces.



Jeff Mowry

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[Gupta65]

Save your assembly first and then again do a save as and select type as part, you'll see the 3 options.

Deepak Gupta
SW 2009 SP4.1 & 2007 SP5.0
MathCAD 14.0
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