Hi all.
Just trying to decide what's the best way to organize a component catalog.
All too many components are modular, so that you can extend their functionality.
AcadE supports at least 2 ways to do this. ASSYCODE/LIST and MULTIPLE CATALOG.
My test show that ASSYCODE/LIST is "nice", but doesn't go all the way.
- It doesn't seem to get pinlist-data for the sub-assemblies
- It doesn't support Item-numbers for the sub-assemblies
MULTIPLE COMPONENT
- Works with pinlist-data, if i select the "manually" in the edit component dialog
- Works with item numbers for each sub component.
- If I use the "TEXTVALUE: MFG01=SCHNEIDER;CAT01=LA1KN11" the pinlist functionality doesn't work
I've read that some users have panel components with the MFG/CAT-values already set. Problem is, many of my customers don't draw panel drawings.
What some customers would like, is to have a catalog code like
MFG=CUSTOMERNAME, CAT=PBGN11
ANd this would give us a green pushbutton woth 1 NO and 1 NC contact in the BOM.
However.. in the BOM, CUSTOMERNAME and PBGN11 would also appear as a part to be ordered.. But.. this is only a "dummy" part that should contain all sub-parts needed to build this pushbutton.
So... Any tips on how to solve this... May of our customers are used to other CAE-solutions that handles this, so we want to make AcadE as good as possible to get these sales.
THL
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