Re: How to add PEM nutserts to a weldment

Keith,

Problem is, I don't wish it to be an assembly - it's bought in as a single
item, and I don't want the nutserts appearing on the BOM. Surely the whole
point of the weldments functionality is to allow you to represent a single
part as a series of individual entities, which can be called up in a cutting
list - to have to have the overhead an assembly file just to add some
inserts seems madness.

Has the ability to manipulate bodies been improved in SW2005 or 2006?
I have to say that this is an area where SW is sadly lacking.

Regards,
John Harland

"Keith Streich" <kstreich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Add it via insert component in an assembly! I assume you don't need to
see
> them inserted in a flat layout? Though that can be done in an assembly
> also.
>
> Keith
>
> "John H" <john.harland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:drlj6s$2sq$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi,
> > I'm making a weldment which calls up PEM nutserts (a self-clinching
> > fastener) and I don't know how to do this efficiently.
> >
> > The parts exist in the SW Toolbox, so I created a part and added it in
> > using "insert part". The problem is that it just gets inserted at the
> > origin. I tried to relocate it using the feature move/copy command, but
> > this seems so limited in its functionality as to be useless! It lets me
> > select the origin of the nutsert as the start of the move, but the only
> > geometry type you can select as the endpoint of the move is a vertex -
not
> > much use when I'm trying to locate it in an existing hole. It doesn't
> > even let you pick reference points as the endpoint.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > As a workaround, I recreated the nutsert as a revolve as a separate
body,
> > located directly in the hole.
> > I now want to use this fastener elsewhere in the part. Is there any way
> > of being able to copy this to another location (not in the same plane),
so
> > that I have just the one revolve defining this one fastener size?
> >
> > I'm on 2004sp5.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John Harland
> >
>



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