Promoting solid or sheet bodies

To associatively copy a sheet or solid body from the idealized part into a higher level in the assembly hierarchy, use the Promote command.

After you promote the body, you can use the geometry idealization commands and Modeling application commands to add or modify features.

A promoted body remains associated to the history in the master part. If updates occur to the master part, the software also updates the promoted body in the idealized part.

Advantages of using Promote versus WAVE Geometry Linker

Although WAVE linking geometry can be more robust and versatile, Promote can be simpler and more straightforward to use, particularly if you do not have a lot of experience working with assemblies in this software.

Disadvantages of using Promote

• Because you can only use Promote on bodies, it does not provide granular control over entities you are copying. For example, even if you only want to modify a single face, you would need to promote the entire solid or sheet body.

• Promoted bodies do not give you control over geometry updates.

• Promoted bodies are also not visible unless their master part is loaded and visible as well.

• Promoted bodies cannot be re-parented or re-linked.

Note:

To avoid these limitations, you can convert promoted bodies to WAVE links at any time.

For more information on promotion, see Promote Body.

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