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About Opening Parts with Bodies and Assemblies with Virtual and Internal Components
While Autodesk Inventor, CATIA V5, SolidWorks, and NX part models can contain multiple bodies, the internal components of CATIA V4 and SolidWorks assemblies may also contain bodies. SolidWorks assemblies may also contain virtual components and CATIA V4 *.model assemblies can contain internal components. You can open part models and part components of assemblies with these various configurations in Creo.
The non-Creo part and assembly models with different configurations open as follows in Creo:
Autodesk Inventor, CATIA V5, SolidWorks, and NX part models with multiple bodies open as non-Creo parts.
The bodies of the source part models open as individual solid bodies and are stored in the Bodies folder of the non-Creo parts.
The multiple bodies of each part component of an assembly open as the solid bodies of the individual non-Creo part components. The Bodies folder of each non-Creo part component contains the bodies of the individual part components.
The virtual components of SolidWorks assemblies open as the internal components of the non-Creo assembly models. These virtual components can contain multiple solid bodies.
The internal components of CATIA V4 *.model assemblies remain as internal components of the non-Creo assemblies.
The components of Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, and NX assembly models that are intersected by the assembly-level features such as cuts, holes, and rounds from the source CAD systems open as the internal components of the non-Creo assemblies. When part components containing solid bodies are intersected by the assembly-level cut, hole, and round features, the solid bodies are transferred to the internal components of the non-Creo assemblies.
Part components with solid bodies are included in assemblies as flexible components.
The instances of the components that are intersected by the assembly-level features from the source CAD systems are assembled as the hidden instances of the components in the non-Creo assemblies.
The solid bodies, virtual and internal components, and the components that are intersected by the assembly-level features are contained in the part and assembly models that you open in Creo.