Inserting a New Sub-assembly
You can insert a new, empty sub-assembly at any level of
the assembly hierarchy. Then you can add components to it in a number
of ways.
Before creating new components in the context of an assembly,
you can specify the default behavior for saving the new components either
as separate external part files or as virtual
components within the assembly file. See Saving
New In-Context Components.
To insert a new sub-assembly:
In the FeatureManager design tree, right-click
either the top-level assembly icon or the icon for an existing sub-assembly,
and select Insert New Sub-assembly.
- or -
Click New Assembly 
(Assembly
toolbar) or Insert, Component,
New Assembly.
In the FeatureManager design tree, an empty
subassembly is inserted as the last component of the selected assembly.
Virtual subassemblies appear with a name in the form [Assemn^assembly_name].
Externally saved subassemblies appear with a name in the form Assemn.
Add components to the sub-assembly:
To move
a component that is already in the assembly into the sub-assembly,
see Dragging
Components to Edit the Assembly Structure or Assembly Structure Editing.
To add an
existing, saved component to the sub-assembly, right-click the
sub-assembly icon in the FeatureManager design tree, and select Edit Sub-assembly. Then insert components
using any of the methods in Adding Components
to an Assembly.
To insert
a new component into a sub-assembly, you must edit the sub-assembly
in its own window. You cannot insert a new component into a sub-assembly
while you are editing the top-level assembly. Also, you cannot insert
a new component while you are editing the sub-assembly in the context
of a higher level assembly. Right-click the sub-assembly icon in the FeatureManager
design tree, and select Open Assembly
to open the sub-assembly in its own window. Then add a new component.
To save a virtual component to its own external
file, right-click the component and select Save
Assembly(in External File). Alternatively, when you save the assembly,
you can select to save the sub-assembly either inside the assembly or
to an external file.