Re: extrenal references - please help me understand

sorry, but I still don't understand:

is it possible to reference a part in an assembly externally using regular
assembling by entering existing parts? (traditional bottom-up assembling)
or is it only possible when creating a new part inside an assembly which
already has at least one part? (top-down assembling)


"That70sTick" <rol4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Forget what they wrote and say to yourself, "Well, duh, how else would
> one do it?!".
>
> If one part has entities that are constrained to another part, where
> would these constraints be made? In an assembly, of course. You can
> not convert (another part's) edges in a sketch or extrude to (another
> part's) surface or plane unless the two parts are residing in the same
> assembly.
>
> As far as the new part-old part thing, basically SW is trying to tell
> you that if part "A" references part "B", then you shouldn't also have
> part "B" reference part "A".
>


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