Public discussion by Chris Williams, posted courtesy of Vuuch.
I’m working on a design for a new custom hardtail bagger and it looks like I will use these bags from Redneck Engineering (http://www.redneckengineering.com/bad_ass_bagger.htm). I started with the idea to use the Redneck bagger kit but have moved onto a different idea. The plan now is to use the Joker frame from American Motor Cycle (http://highly-dangerous.com/index3.htm) and turn it into a bagger. I put up a site at http://www.hardtailbagger.com where you can follow the entire process. My Proe skills are better than my SW skills which creates a problem. All the CAD parts I get are in SW. But my conceptual model is in Proe. Proe has this great feature, merge by referance. What it allows you to do is create a single part that represents the finished product. Then you merge this into other part files for each part and cut away what you do not want. What is cool is as you change that concpet part each specific part then changes. I should create a little video about this. I would love to know if there is a way to do this in SW?