Help with one modification to existing content center o-rings

Help with one modification to existing content center o-rings

claudio.ibarra
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Help with one modification to existing content center o-rings

claudio.ibarra
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All of the tutorials I can find are for brand new Content Center entries based on existing ones. Is it possible to edit an existing one? I want to add the option for "captured" vs "regular" to the existing o-rings in the content center. All existing ones become "regular" and the "captured" option would change one parameter (groove inside diameter) to reduce it by 4%. 

 

Is this possible? Is there a tutorial I should look at? 

 

Please forgive my poor MS Paint skills. I am also currently using Inventor Pro 2018.

 

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Mark.Lancaster
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@claudio.ibarra 

 

You can't edit the ones provided since they are read only.

 

You have to create your own and copy over the family needed this additional key column.

Mark Lancaster


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claudio.ibarra
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Is it possible to tell if I'm looking at a provided one or a copy? I want to say it's a copy (made before I joined the team) because there's already a column for the company-specific part number in the Family Table. 

 

Is it as easy as:

1) Editing the Family Table in Excel

2) Adding a column for "captured"/"standard"

3) Copying all of the existing ~350 rows (putting "standard" in the new column)

4) Pasting additional rows (putting "captured" in the new column)

5) Changing the nominal diameter for the newly copied rows to be 4% smaller than the "standard" sets.

6) Doing something to add the new column as a selector choice when adding from the content center

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