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Conditional Rectanglar Patterns

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:41:29 GMT

Hello,

I am looking to add a rectangular pattern with quantity parameters. For example, I am building a wall. In my excel file, I want to enter the quantity of studs to be added or subtracted. So if I enter a quantity of "10" in my Excel file, I want to see 10 Studs and so on. I have it done by entering a suppression onto each parts extrusions, IF "Studs" equals <5, Suppress. Of course this gives me errors when the parts and constraints aren't present. Can I somehow enter an "IF" statement in an rectangular pattern's quantities?

Re: Conditional Rectanglar Patterns

mcgyvr — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:46:21 GMT

Are you constructing the wall all as 1 part or is this an assembly?

Have you looked into iparts and iassemblies?

There are really many ways to accomplish what you are asking but based on quite a few details there are ways that are much better than others..

IMO a stud wall is 100% an assembly and should be modeled as such..

Re: Conditional Rectanglar Patterns

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:49:39 GMT

Yes,

The stud wall is an assembly, is making the studs an iPart the way to go?

Let me know what way you think is the easiest.

Re: Conditional Rectanglar Patterns

mcgyvr — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:55:02 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Yes,

The stud wall is an assembly, is making the studs an iPart the way to go?

Let me know what way you think is the easiest.

If you need to make different height walls then yes I would make the studs as an ipart.. Each member would be a different length to create different wall heights..

You can switch them out as needed in the iassembly for the wall..

But I don't know all the details so I really can't say what is the best process for your needs.. It may be iparts/iassemblies.. It may be frame generator.. It may be others..

I don't know how many possible wall sizes you can/will have,etc... and many..many other details..

Re: Conditional Rectanglar Patterns

Curtis_W — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:04:03 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Let me know what way you think is the easiest.

Hi james.lovell,

I would encourage you to use the Frame Generator for this. You'll need to create a custom frame component library for all of your dimensional lumber profiles, but then you'll be off to the races.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-publish-custom-profiles-in-Inventor-to-be-used-with-the-Frame-Generator.html

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

Re: Conditional Rectanglar Patterns

Curtis_W — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:51:55 GMT

Hi james.lovell,

Also this might be of interest. There is an iLogic form that controls the pattern, but really not much else. I think you could do something like this with stud walls pretty easily.

Here is a zip file with some example files:

~~i Logic- Assembly Pattern.zip ‏249 KB~~

edit: First data set was old version, this is the one that matches the video

Panel Fill_2015.zip ‏259 KB

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com