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customize assembly

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 06:46:47 GMT

i have different assembly(approx 200 and increasing) of cylinders in cylinders(approx 10,000) which keeps on changing

in length and diameters(part nos also change)

how can i customize the assembly enviroment so that this changing becomes easy.

the solutions that i know are ------call the part as i component and you can fill the values

-------make a rule and form change the dimensions in the form and assembly changed.(but to create this kind of form for so many dimensions is a tough tough task for all these assemblies) one more problem is that sometimes i do not change dim but change the complete part

in that case all relations and rules can fail.

is there any easy way like- i see my assy analyze it than i want to change one dia of a part-- just clicking it and changing the dim with some command and all done.( i do not want to go in editing the part in part mode)

what i do now is changing each component individualy and than assembling them.

Re: customize assembly

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 11:28:12 GMT

I was just makind a project of big car jack with scissors mechanism and what i have done to make it easier was using .xls file with parameters and then write a simple iLogic rule to overwrite the parameters in .xls and give them a new one based on multivalue text user parameter for exp. "Cylinder 1000/Cylinder 1200 etc".
I have been watching a lot of tutorials lately and You can also try with an iPart of this specyfic cylinder and then make iLogic for components that are connected If Cylinder = "1200" Then
Parameter .... = and so on.

Check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ0MiDVJvOc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx2Qi_yCVSk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2oIOsvx9pk

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2014/ENU/?guid=GUID-5A4A6162-8C08-460B-867F-609C9F91EAB1

Those were very helpul for me.

Re: customize assembly

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 11:33:17 GMT

And to make it more easy You can also make a form (i dont know whats called in english ver. of Inventor) wherein You can choose which version of Your part do You want.

Re: customize assembly

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 13:34:04 GMT

ok i guess i know what you are talking about it can be done for single user bcoz he can manage all files

but the problem could be that if you want to send these files to someone other in different location, relations could break.

because linking your file with .xls is always a risk. relations/assemblies could fail for another user if not properly used

and than double time invested on correcting the assembly.

what i want to do is controlling the assembly parts in assembly and not linking with excel

also if you are doing some variation in assembly

you could imeediately see the effects but if you are changing through excel than you first save your excel see in assembly -you dont like the change

than go back in excel than again change and so on...... am i right?