iMate suppress

[danijel.radenkovic]

Hello,
I have an assembly which I need to show in two positions. First position has "1st_position" mate active ("2nd_position" mate is not active), Second position has 2nd_position mate active, 1st_position mate non active. It is showed on the image below.
I tried it through iAssembly to switch between two positions and to immediately update assembly. I hope someone can help me.

[mitchjuenemann · Accepted solution]

Add a user multi-variable parameter that you want to flip the contraint switch in called "Position" with the values of 1 and 2.

Rename the constraints you wish to toggle on and off to 1st_position:1 and 2nd_position:1.

Add this rule to your assembly you wish to switch contraints on and off.

Make a Form if you wish or simply toggle the multi variable parameter you created in you parameters tab on 1 or 2 and you should be able to watch your assembly change position.

If Position = 1 Then
Constraint.IsActive("Your Assembly Name with Constraints on it:1", "1st_position:1") = True
Constraint.IsActive("Your Assembly Name with Constraints on it:1", "2nd_position:1") = False
Else If Position = 2 Then
Constraint.IsActive("Your Assembly Name with Constraints on it:1", "1st_position:1") = False
Constraint.IsActive("Your Assembly Name with Constraints on it:1", "2nd_position:1") = True
End If

Hope this helps...

MItch

[danijel.radenkovic]

Hello Mitch,

Thank you very much for the answer. It helped and now works fine. I have conected multi-value parameter with form for the swithing between two values.

I thought that I can do it through iassembly but I didn't succeed.

Best regards and thank you very much.

Danijel

[mitchjuenemann]

I think you could have just used positional representation and achieved the same result. 

[danijel.radenkovic]

Your solution works fine 🙂

Regards

Danijel