Inventor IPart & Iassembly

[Anonymous]

I saw this video,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmxYOSPna7k

And I was thinking.

Generally when I need to use a part of same family, I need to insert several parts (ipart), and all of them remain in the same family member.

For example:

I have a plate where I locate 4 guide pillars, those guide pillars are built with ipart configuration. And I need that all of those 4 guide pillars have the same dimension.

imagine that my ipart has the following configurations:

D30x100

D30x150

D40x200

D40x250

D40X300

When I had the 4 guide pillars to my assembly, do I have the need to configure that I want a D40x200 one by one, or can I configure just once and other remains equal to the first one?

And if in the middle of my design I need to change my guide pillar dimension from D40x200 to D40X300, do I need to do it again one by one, or can I change just once and the other 3 update by itself?

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! iPart and iAssembly are designed to create library components. I assume you already know the dimensions of the pillars before they are inserted to an assembly. Each member can be totally independent or somewhat dependent on each other. Such relationship should be controlled within the iPart table. You should not try to establish relationship between two members or a member and non-iPart component and such relationship is not controlled by the table.

iPart members are totally driven by the iPart factory. These members have similar shape and similar design function. Each can exist by itself in any assembly with or without other members.

Based on my understanding of your requirement, I believe you just need to add configurable columns to the iPart factory. If you cannot figure out, please feel free to share the files here and forum experts can help take a look.

Many thanks!