iPart key set up?

[Anonymous]

I have created a steel tube iPart and want to be able to change all the
value parameters. How would the "selection keys" be used, if all the values
could change or are they need?
Thanks, Bob

[Anonymous]

Bob,

Are you creating a "custom" iPart or regular iPart?

QBZ


"Bob Johnson" wrote in message
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> I have created a steel tube iPart and want to be able to change all the
> value parameters. How would the "selection keys" be used, if all the
values
> could change or are they need?
> Thanks, Bob
>
>

[Anonymous]

The physical parts will be different lengths of steel tubing, with various
angle cuts on the ends of various tubes. Does that make the iPart custom?
Bob

[Anonymous]

If you create custom user specified columns in the table it does-have you
done the tutorial thing @



QBZ



"Bob Johnson" wrote in message
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> The physical parts will be different lengths of steel tubing, with various
> angle cuts on the ends of various tubes. Does that make the iPart custom?
> Bob
>
>

[Anonymous]

Yes, I have done the tutorials. But I am still unsure about the setting of
the keys. Bob

[Anonymous]

If you are using Excel, for each column you want be a key add
#
to the end of the column title. # would be replaced by the precidence
you want the key to be placed in the browser table.

Example:
Size0

Type1

To do the same thing in the iPart Author, highlight a column, RMB and
pick Key then one of the numbers.

Bob Johnson wrote:

>Yes, I have done the tutorials. But I am still unsure about the setting of
>the keys. Bob
>
>
>
>

[Anonymous]

The Keys define the hierarchy of the iterations you will see in the browser
and the "columns" you can choose upon placement of the iPart.

I am unsure why you would not be better off using a template to create your
tubes.

QBZ


"Bob Johnson" wrote in message
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> Yes, I have done the tutorials. But I am still unsure about the setting of
> the keys. Bob
>
>

[Anonymous]

I agree... from what I have heard of these tubes I am not so sure iParts are
the best way to go.

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"Quinn Zander" wrote in message

> I am unsure why you would not be better off using a template to create
your
> tubes.
>
> QBZ

[Anonymous]

It is important to understand here, that I am new to Inventor and going
through a learning curve. I do not have any knowledge, as yet, of how to
create templates or how they work. Not having the funds for training
classes, I do a lot of stumbling around in the dark, without direction. I
have done tutorials on skeleton modeling, iFeatures, iParts, and others. I
still do not have an understanding as how all these features work together,
or which to employ for a given task. I have ordered a Inventor manual. In
the mean time, I will look into Templates and see where that leads me.
Thanks for your help, Bob

[Anonymous]

A template is nothing more than a part file that you place in your templates
directory. When you create a new part from it you can then modify it's
length etc.. Templates are useful when you make a similar part at lot and
only make minor modifications to said part.

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"Bob Johnson" wrote in message
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> It is important to understand here, that I am new to Inventor and going
> through a learning curve. I do not have any knowledge, as yet, of how to
> create templates or how they work. Not having the funds for training
> classes, I do a lot of stumbling around in the dark, without direction. I
> have done tutorials on skeleton modeling, iFeatures, iParts, and others. I
> still do not have an understanding as how all these features work
together,
> or which to employ for a given task. I have ordered a Inventor manual. In
> the mean time, I will look into Templates and see where that leads me.
> Thanks for your help, Bob
>
>

[Anonymous]

This steel tube part, with 25 variations, is to be used in a frame assembly,
which is 21 ft long x 8 ft wide x 4 ft high. There are 150 tube parts total
in the Frame assembly. Is a template the best method? Thanks, Bob

[Anonymous]

Or even major modifications; The template file comes in as a new ipt (Part1)
so you can save it as a new file. You wouldn't want to save it back to the
template file as the same file name because it would change the original
template. It's basically something you can use frequently to start with.
~Larry

"Sean Dotson" wrote in message
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> A template is nothing more than a part file that you place in your
templates
> directory. When you create a new part from it you can then modify it's
> length etc.. Templates are useful when you make a similar part at lot and
> only make minor modifications to said part.
[snip]

[Anonymous]

What I am reading here, is that for the frame assembly, is better and
faster, to create a part, save it to a template file and use that template
file to create the 25 different parts required, than to create an iPart,
with a table for the different parts? Maybe I better go back and read the
section on creating parts again. Thanks, Bob

[Anonymous]

If there is a fix number of iterations iParts will work fine; once made, all
you would have to do would be to place the appropriate iterations in the
frame for each assembly. Basically, the difference in iParts and Templates
is pretty much between parts that are always the same and parts that aren't
(Template would probably work better if the frame could be any size someone
might want). You can think of iParts like fasteners, they're always the same
basically just different sizes. You can also make pipes or whatever as
iParts and in the scenario you describe, I would make the 25 variations as
iParts then use the ones I needed in each assembly. Didn't realize there
were 25 iterations that all go into a fixed size frame.
~Larry

"Bob Johnson" wrote in message
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> This steel tube part, with 25 variations, is to be used in a frame
assembly,
> which is 21 ft long x 8 ft wide x 4 ft high. There are 150 tube parts
total
> in the Frame assembly. Is a template the best method? Thanks, Bob
>
>