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Link parameters in derived parts

colin.ngNB7PC — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 03:38:07 GMT

Hello everyone, I've moved over from Solidworks in my previous job to using Inventor recently. Recently I prepared my first .idw drawings of a small assembly where one of the parts in the assembly was derived from another one of them.

I linked a length parameter in the original to the description in the iproperties. However, I wasn't able to retrieve that same property in the derived part. Is there any way to do so? I did it so that the description in the .idw would update if I changed the length of the extrusion.

I hope my question was clear enough, and for reference I was using this video as a guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hJL_A5U5o0&t=493s

The 2 parts in question were simply angled brackets, where one was mirrored off the other.

Re: Link parameters in derived parts

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 04:07:39 GMT

You just need to edit the derived part and share the parameter you require.

Re: Link parameters in derived parts

johnsonshiue — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 21:10:24 GMT

Hi! Open the derived part and go to Parameters table -> find the linked parameter -> check "Export" in the far right column. Then the parameter value will become an associative iProperty.

Many thanks!

Re: Link parameters in derived parts

colin.ngNB7PC — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 03:18:06 GMT

Hi all, what I did was add in a parameter in the derived part and linked it to the dimension on the part, so that when I change the original, the length parameter in the derived part would be updated too. Thanks for all your input!