Data Exchange > Creo Unite > Saving and Exporting non-Creo Models > To Save a non-Creo Assembly with Internal, Intersected, and Multibodied Components
To Save a non-Creo Assembly with Internal, Intersected, and Multibodied Components
1. Click File > Open. The File Open dialog box opens.
2. Browse and select an Autodesk Inventor, CATIA, SolidWorks, or NX assembly model with the following components:
Autodesk Inventor, CATIA, SolidWorks, or NX part components that contain multibodies.
SolidWorks assembly models with virtual components.
CATIA V4 *.modelassemblies that contain internal components.
Sub-assembly components that are intersected by assembly level features from the non-Creo CAD systems.
3. Click Open.
The assembly opens as a non-Creo model.
The multibodied part components open as part components.
The mutlibodies open as individual solid bodies within the part component.
The internal, virtual, and sub-assembly components that are intersected by assembly features open as internal components.
Each non-Creo component references the assembly or a subassembly component.
4. Click File > Save As > Save a Copy. The Save a Copy dialog box opens.
5. Specify a new name for the assembly in File name.
6. Set Type to Assembly (*.asm).
7. Click OK. The Assembly Save a Copy dialog box opens.
The assembly shows Action as Save a Copy.
Each reference component shows Action as Reuse.
8. Change the Action of each component from Reuse to Save a Copy.
9. Specify new names for the components.
10. Click Save Copy or Save Copy and Open.
The non-Creo assembly is saved as a Creo assembly by the new name you specified.
The components are saved as individual Creo components.
If you clicked Save Copy and Open, the assembly opens in a Creo Window.