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virtual parts in an assembly

johan.degreef — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 11:28:16 GMT

My main assembly is finished. now i need to to add 50-60 lines in the partlist, like paint, welding material etc. What would be the best workflow?

Make a seperate subassembly with virtual parts in it, that I place as a whole in my main assembly? or...?

It seems when I create a virtual part with my normal ipt template selected, the custom iproperties does not come through. Is there a seperate template that should be used when working with virtual parts?

Thx, Johan

Re: virtual parts in an assembly

bradeneuropeArthur — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 12:25:20 GMT

@johan.degreef wrote:

My main assembly is finished. now i need to to add 50-60 lines in the partlist, like paint, welding material etc. What would be the best workflow?

Add virtual parts indeed

add them as custom to the partslist

use vault items to achieve this

Make a seperate subassembly with virtual parts in it, that I place as a whole in my main assembly? or...?

It seems when I create a virtual part with my normal ipt template selected, the custom iproperties does not come through.

what do you mean with that (Normal Ipt) there is no template for virtual parts, is it?

Is there a seperate template that should be used when working with virtual parts?

Thx, Johan

Re: virtual parts in an assembly

johan.degreef — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 12:27:55 GMT

@bradeneuropeArthur wrote:

what do you mean with that (Normal Ipt) there is no template for virtual parts, is it?

It seems not, so I cannot predefine custom iproperties then?

Re: virtual parts in an assembly

bradeneuropeArthur — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:42:44 GMT

Is far as I know not, indeed.

You could create a rule or add in for it to create VP with properties defined.

Regards,