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This functionality shows you
how to edit a solid internal import feature, modify its reference Link
and keep design consistency
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A generic solid internal import feature
is created when using the Copy/Paste Special as Result with Link on a
body. This feature keeps a link towards the body it was created with,
otherwise known as its reference. It is
possible to edit the solid internal import feature to redirect its input Link towards
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Open the
Edit_BodyLink.CATPart
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The sample part contains two bodies. The first body
contains an edge fillet and a hole. The third body, Body.3 is created
by copying the first body and pasting it by using the Paste Special
as Result with Link option. A solid Internal Import, a generic
solid feature is created and is identified by the icon:
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Create an edge fillet EdgeFillet.2 on
the solid Body.3.
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Check the Parents/Children relationship
of the solid internal import feature. It shows the first body as input and the last edge
fillet as child.
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Double-click on the solid feature or
right-click on it and use the Definition option in the Contextual Menu,
to edit the Internal Import and launch the corresponding dialog box.
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The Input tab is active. Select the
second body Body.2 as the new Input. The Replace Viewer
dialog box appears to reroute the links that pointed sub elements of the
old import geometry.
You need to specify the faces that the
edge fillet will take as reference on the geometry of new generic solid
feature:
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Click Close to go back to the
previous dialog box. Click OK to close the dialog box and
modify the Solid. Update the Part if needed.
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There is no update error. Launch
the Parents/Children command on the modified solid. The second body
is the new Input for the Internal Import.
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This
functionality only concerns Internal Imports. Editing External References is not
possible with it.
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An Internal
Import can only take a body within the part in which it is, as Input.
Simple solid features are not accepted. An Internal Import cannot take bodies
from another part as Input. That would be the same as transforming an
Internal Import into an External Reference, and that is not possible.
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