How to insert additional bodies into 3DVIA Composer – Part 2

In a previous tip, a method of inserting additional bodies using the File -> Open dialog, was presented.  In this tip we’ll mention another way.

To add additional bodies into a Composer document you can right-click at the top of the Assembly tree and choose: Product -> Add Products…

Add Products Command

Then simply browse for and select the file you would like to add.  Note that the file type must be “.smgXml”.

The difference between the two methods is this: If you use the merge option and then later update the whole assembly using the File -> Update method, the merged (added) bodies will be removed.  This is because they don’t exist in the original assembly.  When you use the “Add Products” method, the added bodies will remain after the whole assembly update occurs, thus saving time.