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New user- How should I handle standard steel shapes?

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slightlyagitatedwookie
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New user- How should I handle standard steel shapes?

I've searched all the posts in this NG and haven't found anything like this. My aplogies if this has already been covered.
Our company uses mostly steel shapes. I would like to set up an ipart (I think?) to be able to bring them into an assembly and input the length but then become adaptable also (for easy revisions). I would like to have the following items shoe up in my parts list: Itm, Qty, Description (W6"x15# for example) Length,Mass.

So far I have dwonloaded a few iparts of steel shapes from Charles bliss' site. I have managed to get it use the "Length" parameter in the parts list. I'm stuck trying to get the description.

If I can figure out one shape, then it will be easy to do the same for the others.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Heath
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Message 21 of 25
Anonymous
in reply to: slightlyagitatedwookie

You could do it incontext.  Just select one of
the steel template files as the template when creating an incontext
part.


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I
am curious boilerchip as to exactly how you are using your "templates". I am
assuming that you never make your parts in assembly mode, but rather make your
parts in part mode and then bring them into your assembly. Or is there a way
you can build your parts in assembly mode using the save as
theory?
Message 22 of 25

So what about part numbers, descriptions, and length with these templates. How does that all work when trying to create the Parts List in the .idw?
Message 23 of 25
Anonymous
in reply to: slightlyagitatedwookie

Since each is saved as a separate file you'd need
to manually enter the info into each part.  (some info which is common to
all steel shapes could be pre-entered into the template) but unique info would
need to be changed.


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So
what about part numbers, descriptions, and length with these templates. How
does that all work when trying to create the Parts List in the
.idw?
Message 24 of 25

When you say "info which is common to all steel shapes" you mean info which is common to all sizes and shapes, don't you? If that is the case, I don't think anything is common as far as part numbers, descriptions, and lengths go.
Message 25 of 25
Anonymous
in reply to: slightlyagitatedwookie

I was just thinking out loud.  Maybe something
like: vendor or cost center etc...but I agree not a lot would be
common...


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When
you say "info which is common to all steel shapes" you mean info which is
common to all sizes and shapes, don't you? If that is the case, I don't think
anything is common as far as part numbers, descriptions, and lengths
go.

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