2 small practical problem

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I would like to ask you if You can help us with two small problems that our work team have with Inventor.

First thing - in assembly if we use the mirror option, Inventor will make it but the constrains won't updating in next operations. I mean that if I have mirror plane between symetric elements, and I will change distance between this plane and sourced elements, the mirror one won't move. It doesn't imitate the first one. How can we do it to avoid this problem?

and the second problem is about counting disabled elements from assembly drawing. If we disable a few elements from model assembly, the sheet will update but the table on drawing won't change quantity of this elements. Where can we change it?

Thank you very much in advance, it will help us so much.

Have a nice day!

[CCarreiras]

HI!

1- When you create a mirror in Assembly, inventor will create (or repeat) a part and place it mirrored with the source but... it will not create any constrains between the mirror part and the mirror plane or other geometry. Therefore, if you want to make the mirrored parts to maintain associativity with the model changes, after the mirror, apply new constrains. Note this: If you mirror two or more parts at the same time,  with constrains with each other, the constrains will maintain in the mirrored parts with each other, but again, it will not place any constrains regarding the mirror plane or other geometry.

2- The content of the part list is configured in the Bill of Materials in the 3D Assembly file. If we cut visualization of a part, doesn't mean that we don't want to count it in a part list, so inventor will count in the part list what is defined in the Bill Of Materials, and not you see in the work area.

You have several ways to do that, one of those is to tweak the part list based on 3D visualization filters, depends on what you have or need.

Now the question is: what you mean about "Disable elements"?

[Anonymous]

Thank You for your answer 🙂

In reference to your question I meaned that i can turn off a part by clicking right mouse button.

[CCarreiras]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Thank You for your answer 🙂

In reference to your question I meaned that i can turn off a part by clicking right mouse button.

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You turn off the part where? In Assembly 3D file? in the drawing?

What you mean by turn off? Visualization off? Suppress?

You have to give exact info because the final result will depend on the method you use to achieve it.

[Frederick_Law]

Make the part a reference part will remove it from BOM.

If the part don't need to be in BOM ever, you can make it ref in the part file.

Open the part, go to document option.  There is a BOM option to set it as reference.

If the part is ref in current assembly, you can change it to ref in the assembly.

I think, if you right click the part in the browser tree, there is an option to make it reference.

[CCarreiras]

HI!

@Frederick_Law

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@Frederick_Law wrote:

Make the part a reference part will remove it from BOM.

If the part don't need to be in BOM ever, you can make it ref in the part file.

Open the part, go to document option.  There is a BOM option to set it as reference.

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This is wrong because the part can be a reference at one assembly, but normal in another assembly. If you change in document level, you will change this status in everyplace you use that part.

What you have to do instead is going to the BOM and set the part as reference or Phantom

But again, this could not be the solution because sometimes I should have several parts in the assembly, but for BOM reasons i should only need to count some of them, therefore, in this case, it's better to create Views representations filters.

[Frederick_Law]

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@Frederick_Law wrote:

Make the part a reference part will remove it from BOM.

If the part don't need to be in BOM ever, you can make it ref in the part file.

Open the part, go to document option.  There is a BOM option to set it as reference.

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I use master sketch in assembly.  So I don't want that to show in BOM EVER.

There could be reference parts for locating other parts then don't need to be in any BOM.

And you skipped my next suggestion: If the part is ref in current assembly, you can change it to ref in the assembly.

Just showing different ways of removing part from BOM.