Okay, now I understand. You're designing parts "in context" with "contextual links."
Yes - you should be able to use the copied geometry in the External Reference set for assembly constraints.
But, if the part is "in context" the only constraint you should add is a FIX constaint in order to lock the part location & orientation to the same as the part your getting the external references from.
The "in context" part will have a green gear in the tree icon for that part instance.
If the icon shows a yellow gear, it does not contain external references (or linked) elements. This instance of a part can be repositioned/constrained in the assembly.
If the icon shows a brown gear, it is a secondary instance of the "in context" part and this instance can also be respositioned with assembly constraints.
Last edited by MrCATIA : January 16th, 2008 at 09:39 AM.
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