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Why not just RMB on the old part in the assembly and choose Replace? That will do what you want.

Hi, To make the things clearer I'm trying to replace a molded part in an assembly with cavity splits, cores, inserts and everything was referenced to the original part. Now, after the replacement, almost all of the feature manager tree is in red, all of the cavity features are with errors, the same for the shut-off surfaces. Mates are easy to recreate but I thought if I could change that internal ID I could save the the rest. Thanks anyway, Stefan

Stafan,

I know what you mean, and I don't think there's a way to do this. It's more than just a single number, every edge and vertex, face, etc, has a unique number.

What I usually do is take the original and modify it to be exactly the same as the new one. Not very difficult with two screens.

I'm in the same position. I copy the model out locally, and build the tool around it. If I try to referance the master part, some I.D. guy always ends up screwing up my mold.

Regards

Mark

That could be a big pain.

There is one possibility. One little used feature in SW is the ability to name faces. If you were to name the faces of the original part used to define the various cavity/shut off surfaces and then name the corresponding faces on the new replacement part the same way you might find that some or all of the red balls will go away.

I don't know if they changed this in newer versions, but it is as TOP stated except in 2004 and earlier, I don't know about 2005 and up, when you renamed the faces it didn't update the mates with the new information, though if you renamed them in the first place the mates would properly update to surfaces and edges with the same names in replaced parts. I had created a macro to allow you to rename faces edges and vertices by selecting them in a Base part and then selecting the corresponding face in a subsequent part. But I haven't had much use for it since it doesn't do anything for existing mates and references.

Corey