Here's the scenario: I have a fairly complex assembly with hundreds of parts. I need to send portions of it to different vendors. For example, the outer enclosure is sheetmetal, it goes to the sheetmetal shop (they use SW, no need for drawings).
Problem: I don't want to ship the model of the whole product to my vendors. Many reasons. First, it is unnecesary. Second, there are design elements that are proprietary and should not leave the office in the context of a complete design.
Is there a way to save a new assembly with parts and sub-assemblies removed? The problem is that lots of parts and assemblies have references to other parts and assemblies. So, deleting is out of the question or the design blows-up. I'm sure there's a more elegant way to way to handle this.
Thanks,
-Martin