To Work With Assemblies in Drawings

To preview an assembly

Ensure that the Item Preview button on the Prospector tab is selected.
In Toolspace, on the Prospector tab, right-click the Assemblies collection and click Show Preview.
Note: A check mark is displayed next to the Show Preview menu item when the preview is enabled.
In the Prospector tree, click the assembly that you want to preview.
The assembly is displayed in the Prospector item view.

Note: The preview of the assembly uses the same display styles as the assembly in the drawing area.

To copy an assembly

Copying an assembly creates a new assembly using the standard object naming convention. If the assembly has subassemblies associated with it, new subassembly objects are also created. The new assembly is placed in the drawing and in the Assemblies collection in the Prospector tree. The new subassemblies are included in the assembly, and are also displayed in the Prospector tree as new subassembly objects.

When you copy an assembly, the new assembly is named using an incremental naming convention. For example if the original assembly that is copied is named “Assembly 1”, the new assembly is named “Assembly 1 (1)”. If assembly 1 is copied again, the new assembly is named “Assembly 1 (2)”. If “Assembly 1 (1)” is copied, the new assembly is named “Assembly 1 (1) (2)”.

This same naming convention also applies to any new subassemblies created when copying an assembly.

In the drawing area, right-click the assembly baseline and click Basic Modify Tools Copy.
At the command line, you are prompted to specify a base point for the assembly.
Pick an insertion point in the drawing area.
The assembly is copied in the drawing and added as a new assembly to Assemblies collection.
To edit the name of the assembly, right-click the assembly in the Prospector tree and click Properties.
The Assembly Properties dialog box is displayed with the Information tab active. The Name field contains the name of the copied assembly, which is, by default “ <assembly name> (1).”
Enter a new name in the Name field.
To edit the description of the assembly, enter a new description in the Description field.
Click Apply to accept the changes, or click OK to accept the changes and close the Assembly Properties dialog box.

To delete an assembly

Deleting an assembly erases it, and associated subassemblies, from the drawing and removes them from the Assemblies and Subassemblies collections in the Prospector tree.

Do one of the following:

In the drawing area, right-click the assembly baseline, or select the entire assembly object, and click Basic Modify Tools Erase.
In the Prospector tree, right-click the assembly and click Delete.

The assembly is erased from the drawing and removed from the Assemblies collection in the Prospector tree.

To insert an assembly into modelspace

In Toolspace, on the Prospector tab, expand the Assemblies collection.
Select the assembly you want to insert. Right-click. Click Insert into Modelspace.
In modelspace, click a location for the assembly.

To remove all assemblies from modelspace

You can remove assemblies from modelspace, but keep them in the Assemblies collection in Prospector for later use.

In Toolspace, on the Prospector tab, select the Assemblies collection.
Right-click. Click Remove All from Modelspace.

To remove an assembly from modelspace

In modelspace, select the assembly you want to remove.
Right-click. Click Remove from Modelspace.

In Toolspace, on the Prospector tab, expand the Assemblies collection.
Select the assembly you want to remove.
In Prospector, indicates that an assembly is in modelspace.
Right-click. Click Remove from Modelspace.

To erase all unreferenced assemblies from the drawing

You can erase all assemblies that are not referenced in a corridor. When assemblies are erased, they are removed from modelspace and the Assemblies collection in Prospector. They are no longer available in the drawing.

In Toolspace, on the Prospector tab, select the Assemblies collection.
Right-click. Click Erase All Unreferenced Assemblies.