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    Posts: 8
    Registered: ‎04-25-2012

    Re-Sizable Panel

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    11-12-2012 07:33 AM

    I was hoping someone could help me with the following issue.

    I would like to make a aluminum framed panel template that I can enter in the height and width dimensions and then save the panel assembly into it's own unique part#. Right now, when I design enclosure, I will have multiple sizes of framed panel and I typically have to manually change the length and width dimensions for the individual extrusion members, then change the panel size manually. I re-name the new extrusions and panels to avoid file name conflicts. Is there a way to simplify the process? 

    Like I said before, I will have multiple "section"(SEC) assemblies in each main assembly file. 

    I attached a zip file with my aluminum framed panel assembly.

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    PaulMunford
    Posts: 671
    Registered: ‎11-13-2006

    Re: Re-Sizable Panel

    11-12-2012 01:37 PM in reply to: jbauer

    Look into skeletal modelling:

    http://cadsetterout.com/inventor-tutorials/assembly-techniques-for-woodworkers-the-skeletal-modellin...

     

    or iCopy:

    http://cadsetterout.com/inventor-tutorials/autodesk-inventor-icopy-tutorial/

     

    Copying an Inventor assembly has it's wn challenges. There's some good advice here:

    http://cadsetterout.com/inventor-tutorials/the-secrets-of-copying-assembly-files/

     

    Let us know how you get on!

     

    Paul

    The CAD Setter Out Blog
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