Cut Assembly
Assembly Tool Tab 
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Use this command to cut one or more components
in an assembly with another component or shape. First
select the components to be cut followed by the cutting components and/or
shapes. You
can choose to keep or discard the cutting geometry.
Each component part is replaced with a copy of the part, unless a copy was already created by a previous Cut Assembly feature. The part copy is placed in the active file. Refer to the example assembly and Root Object Browser below. The component is updated so that it instances the part copy. The shape geometry of the copied part is cut instead of the original part. The Notes section below contains additional information that you should know about this command.
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The history operation for this
command is logged in the active part. When
the history is regenerated, the original parts are re-instanced, copied
and cut, leaving the original parts unaffected. The
regenerated copies overwrite previous copies with the same names.
It is important to understand
that this cut feature "pushes" modifications down into component
parts without logging actual cut operations in those parts. If
the component parts are individually regenerated, the "cut"
will not show up in the parts until the parent part containing the cut
operation is regenerated.
A History
Comment is inserted in each cut part indicating that the part was
modified by an operation residing in another part.
This command can be used to cut
components more than one level down from the active part. If
a cut is made to a component that belongs to a sub-assembly that is instanced
more than once in the active part, the cut will show up in each instance.
Sub-assemblies are not copied before they are cut with this command. Only the specific component being cut is copied. The Assembly Manager "Clone" option can be used to replace an instance of a sub-assembly with a copy of the sub-assembly. A modification can be limited to a particular instance of a sub-assembly by cloning the sub-assembly first.
