mjkelly,
With Pos Reps, you create a new pos rep where you can then override
assembly constraint(s) and give them a new value. If you do this
repeatedly, you can end up with are several pos reps you can click on to get
different positional states of your assembly. Example: a door in several
pos rep states...closed, open, ajar overriding an angular constraint.
Flexibility is a totally different animal. Flexibility allows occurances
of a sub-assembly to be in different positions at the same time.
Previously, if we wanted this, you would have to bring in the subs as unique
ones, not occurances in order for them to be in different states at the same
time.
Example: An IC engine with a piston and connecting rod as a sub-assembly
occurances. Even if the connecting rod is free to rotate, occurances must
be at the same "free" angle at any time. With flexibilty, we can have the
occurances containing the connecting rod be at different angles at the same
time.
I hope this helped...
Best regards,
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Hugh Henderson (Inventor Workflow QA)
"mjkelly" wrote in message
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> Is there a tutorial which explains positional reps and flexibility out
there anywhere. The help within IV9 is not much help - as usual. I have
tried several combinations of positional representation overrides and
flexible state overrides within a set of assemblies and see no differences
when it comes to flexibility. I guess I just do not understand the
implementation.
>
> Thanks.