Can someone tell me if there's a way to do this:
I have a derived part that's identical to its parent part, except that it's mirrored.
I want to do an associated array of fasteners in the holes that were arrayed in the parent part, and show-up in the derived part.
I can't get the assocated array to function in the derived part.
Is there a way to make this derived part act like its parent part so I can accomplish this associated array in the derived part?
My approach is to do the mirror operation in the layout (mirror entire solid to a new solid), then you can do the array there and choose which solid it applies to (in fact, even though a hole can go through multiple solids, a pattern of that same hole can only apply to one solid). Then derive to individual parts.
Sam B
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Thanks Sam.
The first part I already do.
But I don't understand what you're saying in the 2nd part (in the parentheses).
Would you send an example or link me to a pdf showing the process-flow?
I don't have anything immediately at hand to illustrate. But I'll try to explain with a bit more detail.
To create right/left hand parts, I start with a layout, which is a part file in which I create the two solids. I then derive these solids into two separate parts.
As for the bit I put in parentheses in my previous message, that's just mentioning a current limitation of multi-body solids. Some tools can apply to multiple solids, some cannot. Holes can, patterns cannot. So, even though I can put a hole through three solids in one feature, if I want to pattern that hole through the same three solids, I will have to create three separate pattern features, one for each solid. Pretty annoying, and makes a cluttered feature browser, but at least it's possible.
Sam B
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still waiting for a foreshortened radius dimensioning tool in Drawing Manager
Sam,
Thanks for the good explanation.
I do use multi-body parts like that.
I also do the 'short-cut' method of creating all the left-hand parts in the multi-body part (your "Layout ipt"), and then I mirror them into separate ipt's in the iam file. That leaves my multi-body part less large, b/c it tends to slow down the machine when the multi-body ipt's get big.
Either way, there's those "annoyances" that always "clutter-up" the browser and create massive overhead in the model, as you mentioned.
Thanks again for the good explanation.