Components drive geometry

[JYZMT]

Hello,

Can any any one give me some guidance or direct me to some tutorials where I can use "decision trees" to drive geometry? I'll explain .....

I have an assembly. It's made up of several components. Let's say for example one sub component is a hinge A, and it's fixing requires holes and recessed pockets or some such specific requirement. Everything is defined parametrically, so I can make changes to user parameters to drive the model for different configerations. 

But I also have hinge B, which is entirely different to hinge A. Not just in the size of holes (that would just be a case of changing parameters) but in the entire geometry of the pocket recess, the number of holes etc. 

Can I switch A for B, or even C?  And the model update? Or do I need a different file / assembly for each configuration? 

Another example might be joints. So I have jointing method X and Y, and globally I need to switch between them, and the model changes, and so the manufacturing output changes?

Hence, a serious of decisions in the components selected changes the model. Individual models works to an extent, but quite soon you can end up with a huge number of eventualities to set up.

does This mean the history at the bottom left would not be linear? But branches like a tree? So maybe the software can't do this?

thanks,

[Feiqi.Zhang · Accepted solution]

As I know, Fusion does not have support for tree like history structure.  One file can have one configuration at a time.

Feiqi Zhang - Fusion development team

[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

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@JYZMT wrote:

Can I switch A for B, or even C?  And the model update? Or do I need a different file / assembly for each configuration? 

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No, you cannot just switch A for B etc.as there is not "replace Component"functionality in Fusion.

You need to Crete a different component, or assembly for each configuration, but these different configurations can al be part of a single Fusion 360 design(file).

[JYZMT]

Thanks to both of you for reply.

This may cause me problems. Does any one know if this is possible in inventor? 

If I can't get the assemblies to "switch in" components, then perhaps I have to create each and every eventuality as an assembly as suggested......

But if these are separate files, is it possible to pull out components from multiple files into a single manufacturing file? Lets say all material A parts from say 6 individual files to one for nesting and milling, and all material B etc for another....

Or

Should I look at importing assemblies from a library of multiple files, based on the user configuration. And then within that file, seperting out all the A and B materials for manufacture?

In short, I need a solution for exporting user driven configurations of families of assemblies . A configuration might have 2 assemblies in it, or might have 20. And the assemblies, although related, are different in geometry. If I can't "switch in" components, I need to to understand if it's possible to pull components out of multiple files and process for machining, or if it's possible import asemblies from multiple files, and then process?

Even if if this is not native to the software, if it's possible to be scripted I could look into it? but I need to know it's possible first? 

Thanks

[JYZMT]

I went to post the question in the inventor forum. A quick search shows they have something called ilogic, which I think might do what I need. Does a similar thing exist in fusion 360, beyond simply linking parameters together formula functions?

Thanks