Copy parts from a subassembly while preserving constraints

Hi all

My problem is the following: 

I have an assembly that I have divided into two files: mechanical and hydraulic network.

For various reasons, I have to come up with an organization of this type:

General Assembly:

  • A. Mechanical structure
  • B. Hydraulic network
  • a) "copy" sub-assembly of the mechanical structure
  • b) different tubes of the hydraulic network (defined via 3D drawings with references in the "copy" assembly)

I have already created my entire assembly B., my question is the following: how do I copy all the parts and constraints of my subassembly a) "copy" directly into the general assembly? I don't want to import the sub-assembly as it is but to have all the parts of the mechanical structure on the first level in the general assembly.

 

I hope I have been clear! I thank you in advance and wish you a very good weekend,

Kind regards

Arnaud

Good evening

If I understand correctly, you want to have in your general assembly the mechanical components at the first level and the hydraulic components gathered in a sub-assembly.

If I'm right so far, here's what I suggest (the parts presented surely have little to do with your mechanical components and even less with the hydraulic ones, I took in my bag existing assemblies that I renamed according to your terminology).

Good night


decomposition_assemblage.pdf
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Hello @pierre-Mihailovic

So now I'm glued. Super bravo!!     ;-)   ;-)

It's crazy the number of features in this software                 (which I don't  know ;-)   ;-)  ;-) ;-)    )

Note, that I didn't really understand the interest of the manip for @AGrd : but in any case it must be more frequent than we think for SW to dedicate a feature that works well for it  ;-)

Kind regards

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Thank you Pierre!! I didn't know this position, it will be very useful to me! And thank you for taking the time to make a small pdf, that's a 5-star answer:)

For Zozo, the manipulation may seem curious, it is mainly used to recover the hydraulic assembly to use it on other mechanical structures without losing the link with the first one. It's a debatable way of doing things but I don't really choose haha!