Hi,
As far as the FrameGenerator is concern, the users are on their own when it comes to manipulating with the individual FrameGenerator members.
Within our scope of works, which is the materials handling systems and general plant designs, majority of modelling is in building supporting structures and frames. For initial designs, the FrameGenerator is an extremely suitable application, but very difficult to use when it comes to reusing the designs at any level.
To overcome this problem, I have created a utility that copies a single assembly that includes the FrameGenerator members, including the frame, skeleton and members to an assembly with a different name.
Since that we use a structured naming convention: if assembly name is abc-001 the frame name will be abc-001-F, the skeleton name will be abc-001-S and the individual members name will be abc-001-001, -002 and so on. With such naming structure, the copy design utility will only replace all but last block within the name structure. If the new assembly name is xyz-010, the all other components names will be: xyz-010-F, xyz-010-S, xyz-010-001 and so on.
Having the naming convention as described above, enabled us to build a number of generic frames and supporting structures to reuse them within projects using the CopyDesign utility.
If you think this can be of any help to you, contact me on e-mail alexs@e-ranns.com
Regards,
AlexS