New Part in Assembly

Makes a brand new part while you're inside an assembly, placed on a plane or a flat face you choose. The modeling tools open with a sketch on that plane, so you can draw a part that fits the ones around it. This needs the Pro plan and the modeling tools.

When to Use It

• Draw a bracket straight onto the face of an existing part
• Build a plate on one of the assembly's origin planes
• Start a part without leaving the assembly

Step by Step

1. Open an assembly. Click the Assembly tab, then New Part. Or right-click the assembly row in the Model tree and choose New Part...
2. A New Part window asks Name of the new part. It suggests Part1, then Part2 and so on. Type a name (up to 160 characters) and click Next.
3. A second window, New Part: <name>, says "Pick a plane or flat face to place it on." Click a flat face of a component in the view, or click Front Plane, Top Plane or Right Plane to use a plane of the assembly origin.
4. A message says "Making <name>..." and the new part is saved to your account as a model of its own.
5. The modeling tools open with a sketch on that plane, and the corner bar reads "Editing <name> in <assembly>". Draw your part.
6. Click Exit Edit Part in the corner bar to save it and go back to the assembly.

Options

Tips

• Leaving with nothing drawn takes the empty part away again. The message reads "<name> was not kept: nothing was drawn."
• The new part is an ordinary saved model. You can find it in your files and insert it into other assemblies.
• The x in the corner bar leaves without saving, and for a new part that also takes the new part away. See Edit Part.
• You can't use another part as a reference while you draw. Pick a face of the new part itself.

If Something Goes Wrong

• "Give the new part a name." The name box is empty.
• "That is not a flat face. Pick a flat face or a plane." Curved faces can't hold a new part.
• "That cannot hold a new part. Pick a plane or a flat face."
• "Sign in to make a new part." The new part is saved to your account, so you need to be signed in.
• "Could not make the new part." Try again in a moment.
• "The part could not be saved, so it stays open. Your changes are still here." Try Exit Edit Part again.
• "The modeling tools are busy. Try again in a moment."
• "Collapse the exploded view before editing a part."
• "Editing a part needs the modeling tools, which your plan does not include."
• "A part is already open for editing. Exit Edit Part first."
• "This assembly is shared with you to look at..." A shared assembly can't be changed.
• "Edit Part works on assemblies built from saved parts..." An assembly opened from a STEP file can't take a new part.

Related

• Edit Part (Edit Component)
• File, New Part
• Coincident Mate
• Assemblies: Edit Part, New Part and Replace