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My company design and manufacture hot water cylinders. These cylinders have a lot of variables such as diameters, heights, and material.
So far, i have drawn each individual item that make up the cylinder, which also have variables like sizes, materials etc. These are welded onto the cylinder in our factory, and have designated heights. They are assigned to a degree as well if you image looking down at a cylinder from a birds eye view. (I have attached a drawing as an example of what the end result will look like)
Every time we receive an order for a special cylinder i have to make constraints in an assembly to create the cylinder from scratch.
Is there anyway i can use parameters or ilogic or something to select certain parts to appear in the assembly, assign them a height on the cylinder and assign them a position using planes? I recently saw use of forms which looked very useful but being a novice i'm not sure how i would go about doing this. I would also like to link it with an excel document so it can be transferred into other systems we have here.
What i really want is to be able to select the capacity of cylinder i require, then a diameter, which parts i would like on the cylinder, material, etc. Is this doable?
Any suggestions, guides, or examples of how i can achieve this are welcomed.
My company design and manufacture hot water cylinders. These cylinders have a lot of variables such as diameters, heights, and material.
So far, i have drawn each individual item that make up the cylinder, which also have variables like sizes, materials etc. These are welded onto the cylinder in our factory, and have designated heights. They are assigned to a degree as well if you image looking down at a cylinder from a birds eye view. (I have attached a drawing as an example of what the end result will look like)
Every time we receive an order for a special cylinder i have to make constraints in an assembly to create the cylinder from scratch.
Is there anyway i can use parameters or ilogic or something to select certain parts to appear in the assembly, assign them a height on the cylinder and assign them a position using planes? I recently saw use of forms which looked very useful but being a novice i'm not sure how i would go about doing this. I would also like to link it with an excel document so it can be transferred into other systems we have here.
What i really want is to be able to select the capacity of cylinder i require, then a diameter, which parts i would like on the cylinder, material, etc. Is this doable?
Any suggestions, guides, or examples of how i can achieve this are welcomed.
Hi jaccalvert,
Here's a good AU paper that covers the basics of using ilogic for this kind of thing:
Once you dig into this you can ask programming questions of this type on the Inventor Customization forum too:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-Customization/bd-p/120
I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com
Hi jaccalvert,
Here's a good AU paper that covers the basics of using ilogic for this kind of thing:
Once you dig into this you can ask programming questions of this type on the Inventor Customization forum too:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-Customization/bd-p/120
I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com
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