Project: Steel Engineering Drawing Management (BIM-PDM)

Derive Assemblies

New assemblies can be derived (copied) from active assemblies (also structure assemblies). This makes sense if a similar, slightly modified assembly is required.

For this the following functions are available.

Derive, active assembly(-ies) with sub-parts and

Derive, active assembly(-ies) without sub-parts

Derive, active assembly(-ies) with sub-parts

Management + BIM > Parts > Derive, active assembly(-ies) with sub-parts

Use this function to derive (copy) a new assembly from the active assembly (also possible for structure assemblies) including all its sub-parts.

When the copy of the active assembly is created, please note the following:

• Article masters, indices and item numbers will be deleted during the derivation.
• The linked documents, i.e. the drawings, will not be copied.
• When the derived assembly is itemized, item numbers will be continued, i.e. the two assemblies and their parts will have different item numbers, although they are initially identical.

Proceed as follows:

1. Activate the desired assembly.
2. On the Management + BIM tab, select Drawing > Derive . A preview of the copy will be displayed.
3. Specify a fitting point in the preview and then, specify the position of this point in the drawing. Instead of specifying a point you can also right-click and select the origin of the Part CS via the context menu function.

Example:

The model drawing below contains the assembly HEA 450, which in turn consists of 1 beam and 2 plates.

After itemisation and saving, the - previously empty - project BSP-ABL will contain 1 document and 4 articles.

After drawing generation and the release of all drawings the project additionally contains the document masters and article masters of the production drawings.

If you now apply the Derive function to the assembly HEA 450, a copy of this assembly will be created. Item numbers and article masters will be deleted in the process.

If you now start the itemisation and save the model drawing, new article masters will be created for the copy. The release status will be set to "In progress".

Please note:

• This function also supports multiple selections. In this case, for each of the assemblies the fitting point and the position of this point in the drawing will be queried.
• Main assemblies cannot be derived.

Derive, active assembly(-ies) without sub-parts

Management + BIM > Parts > Derive > Derive, active assembly(-ies) without sub-parts

Here, too, the active assembly will be copied, but with the following difference:

• The article masters, indices and item numbers of the sub-parts are preserved.
• The Workflow status of the sub-parts remains unchanged.
• The links of the sub-parts to the drawings are preserved.

This function can make sense if you insert a released assembly a second time, and want to add just another beam there, without changing the sub-parts.

When itemising the derived assembly, only the item numbers of the assembly will be continued; the sub-parts will retain their original item numbers.

Please note that this function will only make sense if in the Configuration Editor the setting PDM > Management + BIM > Production drawings > Consider total number in producton drawing has been set to No. Otherwise the following message will be displayed when you save the model drawing:



After clicking on OK, the corresponding sub-parts will be listed for your information. For these sub-parts of the copied assembly a revision index would have to be created, or the Workflow status would have to be reset, which would, in principle, be contrary to the function's purpose.

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