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About Opening Assemblies with Components Intersected by Assembly-Level Features
You can open Autodesk Inventor, NX, and SolidWorks assemblies with component models that are intersected by assembly-level features such as cuts, holes, and rounds in addition to the regular components without such intersections. The assembly-level features that are created in the source CAD systems can intersect multibodied parts, the virtual and internal components of SolidWorks and CATIA V4 *.model assemblies, or an instance of an assembly component.
The components that are intersected by the assembly-level features contain geometry that vary from the original part and assembly models and are separate internal models. The instances of the intersected components are assembled as the hidden instances of the components in the assemblies. Each instance too has separate geometry. The design changes made in Creo to an instance of an intersected component are not propagated to other instances of the intersected component.
The components and their instances that are intersected by the assembly-level features are identified by their representative icons on the Model Tree. The component model names on the Model Tree are appended with the extension, [Intersected], for example, model.sldprt [Intersected]. Reports such as BOMs and the drawing balloons display the model names of the intersected components by the same names as the regular components without the extension, [Intersected].
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You can activate the intersected components, but cannot independently open the intersected components.
When you save the non-Creo assemblies with intersected components to the Creo.asm or other supported non-Creo formats, the intersected components are extracted as independent components with different identity.