Positional representation override with LOD

[Anonymous]

I have a subassembly that contains 4 parts that represents 4 different styles that the one part can look so I want to create a LOD representation system for each that is connected to positional representations because the styles change with position change. This representation should be able to go through multiple levels of assembly as positional representation overrides. I'd rather not use derived assemblies for all levels for the representation. Is there any way of doing this?

[Frederick_Law]

Try View Representation with Positional Rep instead of LOD.

[Cadmanto]

Something else to look at is whether iAssemblies would work for you also.

Windows 10 x64 -16GB Ram
Intel i7-6700 @ 3.41ghz
nVidia GTS 250 - 1 GB
Inventor Pro 2018

[swalton]

I am not aware of an out-of-the-box link between position reps, LODs and/or Design View Reps.  I expect that there is a way to use iLogic to link them.

A word of caution: LODs were designed as a memory management tool back in the 32 bit Windows XP days.  It is possible to force them into a configuration management tool, but expect lots of work-arounds and odd behavior from Inventor if you do so.

As others on in this thread have recommended, you may want to use Design Views or iAssemblies/iParts to manage your configuration tasks. 

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Adam,

I guess you are using LOD as a configuration tool. LOD was designed to be a memory management tool to overcome the 32-bit system memory limit. It is not a configuration tool. As a result, suppressed components still participate in PosRep via cached geometry. If you want to hide certain components in a PosRep, please create Design View Rep.

Many thanks!