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Part creation help

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Message 1 of 7
mrmeyer
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Part creation help

What i am doing is using an extrusion and making 20-30 different parts from that extrusion. With iv 5.3 there was no work around or way to edit the extrusion of all 20-30 files at one time but i am wondering if there was something to allow this in iv 7.0

creating the parts originally is not a big deal but the time to edit can be very large for such a small change as a radius or chamfer.

Any help would be appreciated as I am starting a new project and would be a good time to try a new technique.

thanks,

Mark
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Message 2 of 7
Anonymous
in reply to: mrmeyer

Sounds like a good use for Derived parts to
me.

Make your base extrusion the parent part and then
the 20-30 other parts derived from that extrusion.

 


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What
i am doing is using an extrusion and making 20-30 different parts from that
extrusion. With iv 5.3 there was no work around or way to edit the extrusion
of all 20-30 files at one time but i am wondering if there was something to
allow this in iv 7.0

creating the parts originally is not a big deal but the time to edit can be
very large for such a small change as a radius or chamfer.

Any help would be appreciated as I am starting a new project and would be a
good time to try a new technique.

thanks,

Mark

Message 3 of 7
mrmeyer
in reply to: mrmeyer

using the derived part works good as long as the trim length doesnt change. Just as an example it would be like having 2x4 lumber with different trim lengths and fabrication such as holes, notches, etc. My retailer who does training wasnt able to find a way to do this but there must be a way or could be a way that autodesk can make this work in future versions of inventor. ANOTHER way of thinking about this would be if you were using the same sketch (extrusion) for the parts, and you are sharing them across many parts. I can supply a dwg (or 8 of the same profile) that may possibly explain this easier.
Message 4 of 7
Anonymous
in reply to: mrmeyer

I don't understand your problem quite well, but it
seems that custom iParts should work for you.


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using
the derived part works good as long as the trim length doesnt change. Just as
an example it would be like having 2x4 lumber with different trim lengths and
fabrication such as holes, notches, etc. My retailer who does training wasnt
able to find a way to do this but there must be a way or could be a way that
autodesk can make this work in future versions of inventor. ANOTHER way of
thinking about this would be if you were using the same sketch (extrusion) for
the parts, and you are sharing them across many parts. I can supply a dwg (or
8 of the same profile) that may possibly explain this
easier.
Message 5 of 7
mrmeyer
in reply to: mrmeyer

the i-part works good the first time of making the part. what happens after we make our assemblies and final drawings is now instead of the standard 2x4 with an 1/8" radius now instead they decide that we will change to 1 1/2" x 3" with a 1/2" chamfer on the corners. I do want to thank you both for the replies as it has given me some ideas as to how i may be able to do a work around, but if anyone does have anything else that may help it would be appreciated.
Message 6 of 7
Anonymous
in reply to: mrmeyer

Using the iPart approach you could have had a
single key (let's say called configuration, with the value "A"). it would have
had 3 more columns for height, width, and radius. So if you were to change these
values later they would propagate to the same iPart member which is tied to the
factory through the single key "A".

 

If you could give more details of your exact
problem perhaps I would understand the problem better.


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the
i-part works good the first time of making the part. what happens after we
make our assemblies and final drawings is now instead of the standard 2x4 with
an 1/8" radius now instead they decide that we will change to 1 1/2" x 3" with
a 1/2" chamfer on the corners. I do want to thank you both for the replies as
it has given me some ideas as to how i may be able to do a work around, but if
anyone does have anything else that may help it would be
appreciated.
Message 7 of 7
Anonymous
in reply to: mrmeyer

iParts should be ideal. In the description below, you state Radius in
one part and chamfer in another. In this case, you would suppress the
Radius feature when you need the Chamfer and vise versa. If you want a
really difficult example of using suppression, look at:
http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/Parts/Hardware/CarrLaneBallLockPin.zip or
the microfit library:
http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/Parts/Hydraulic/SwageLokMicrofit.zip

mrmeyer wrote:

> the i-part works good the first time of making the part. what happens
> after we make our assemblies and final drawings is now instead of the
> standard 2x4 with an 1/8" radius now instead they decide that we will
> change to 1 1/2" x 3" with a 1/2" chamfer on the corners. I do want to
> thank you both for the replies as it has given me some ideas as to how
> i may be able to do a work around, but if anyone does have anything
> else that may help it would be appreciated.

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