Sorry for your Sunday, you shouldn't have spent time on the problem, Sunday is sacred.
I tried to redo the multibody in sheet metal module, but I still don't have the options. I looked everywhere in the options, on the internet, on SW help, but I couldn't find anything conclusive.
I'll look into it again during the day, I'll keep you informed
Have a nice day
PS: This is enclosed a configuration of a chain guide, in sheet metal module
Your problem is simply solved since SW 2013 or 2014 I don't know anymore. Bart must be in one of these versions so has the checkbox to save the properties of multiple bodies but not you because you must be in an older version.
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PS: I haven't read the 5 pages of answers so I may be duplicating another answer
So I understand that you are in 2014 but you do not have the sub-option in the "copy custom properties to new parts" option when you save the parts to parts.
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According to my tests, if there is a sheet metal in the file, it doesn't work anymore. The sub-option is only available if I only have Welded Parts Items.
So the solution is to do everything without any notion of sheet metal, simple volume, to register your bodies and then convert to sheet metal.
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Re, According to my tests, if there is a sheet metal in the file, it no longer works. The sub-option is only available if I only have Welded Parts Items. So the solution is to do everything without any notion of sheet metal, simple volume, to register your bodies and then convert to sheet metal. @+
Thank you @ coyote
That's why I specified to do everything mechanically welded via profiles
See list of links and tutorial above
this type of piece has the view that I have of it since I can't have the file being in 2012 can very well be made via profiles
so profile library (create profiles)
and welded construction
We will find all the parameters of these said parts
@gt22 not necessary to make profiles, x body in notion of welded constructions and it works.
@Bart how do you get the option available with sheet metal? Which version of SW? Do you start with a sheet metal and then welded constructions or the other way around?
If I understand correctly, I can only find the properties of each part in the multibody, when I design this multibody as a volume body, then I save the bodies and then I convert it into sheet metal,... What a job.
Yes, you have to activate the welded construction (not necessarily create mechanically welded elements), then create your x bodies without sheet metal.
In any case, at home it's the only way to make it work and so I go to the sheet metal shop after the storage of the bodies in single pieces. So yes, it's a lot of work.
Now we should understand pkoi @bart get there with sheet metal and not we I'm also in sw2014 sp4.
In any case it might be an improvement to SW in the future, because if you have to do the design in volume body and then take it all over again in order to convert it into sheet metal, I don't see too much time saving