Hi Kyle -
You can't change the names of the variables, because there are many times
that the application needs them to be named specifically to work correctly.
If you changed the name of the width of the connector from RW1 to JRI#& then
the application wouldn't know to look at the variable called JRI#& to get
the width of the first connector.
What you can do is use the default names of the dimensions the drive the
model, but set their visibility to hidden and make them equations, then
create some "custom" variables that are named the way that you want them
named to drive all of the dimensions.
Create a variable called UnitWidth Set L3 (or whatever dimension drives the
overall unit width) = UnitWidth and turn the visibility of L3 to False. Now
when you change UnitWidth it will change L3, but you don't have to show the
user that L3 is actually the unit width.
You don't need to redefined the names of the dimensions that are "forced" on
you. Just hide them and use your own.
jason
"Kyle Bernhardt" wrote in message
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> I finished creating a parametric part yesterday of a type of vertical fan
> coil unit. I must say that the interface for creating these parts is
quite
> clunky, but after a little while I got used to it. I went about creating
my
> part and now have numerous variables and such that need to be defined to
> create each part size. I would like to create some organization in my
> variables so that they are more easily understood and less bulky. It
> appears that you cannot change the names of dimension variables. This
> completely stupifies me, since the variable name is just a reference to
the
> data, and if you've ever coded, then you know it's easy to redefine a
> variable in pretty much any language. That being said, it would be great
if
> I could redefine these names for organization. I see that you are able to
> give the variables a description if they are parameters in the "Model
> Parameters". This helps, but when you define part sizes you do it in the
> "Edit Part Sizes" dialog, which does not display these descriptions,
leaving
> you with a table of seemingly randomly named variables with no reference
as
> to what they define. This is close to useless for anybody except the
person
> who created the part. Guys at Autodesk...what gives? The idea of the
> parametric part is great, and the process to model each one is relatively
> easy once you get it, but it seems to me that very little time was put
into
> the result of the parametric part creation, which is a table of program
> defined variables with no descriptions. I'm sure somebody taught you to
> program with comments, a little "%" or ";" or "/*" is needed here.
>
> --
> Kyle Bernhardt
> Mechanical Engineer
> Dagher Engineering
> 29 Broadway
> New York, NY 10006
>
>