No, even if you save an assy as a part, it's still relying on the individual part files and you have to maintain them. If you round trip it through the parasolid, you get a single, clean part, all one imported feature.
But, that has a good side to it. If you have only one seat of COSMOS, and that guy is busy, you can still analyze a wlmt by joining it and then using COSMOS Express. Since it's still linked to the parts, you can make changes to them and run the analysis again.
WT
I believe single body is created via parasolid route, but if one performed
>the insert new part and join features and then saved the assembly to a part
>file, the same would be created. No need to go through all the export / >import stuff.
>
> Keith
>
>>
>> What does your method achieve that "save as part" does not?
>> Does it make the part a single body?
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Harland
>>
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