Configuration workflow with iParts and ilogic

[Daan_M]

Dear forum members,

I'm Dan, engineering student. I'm currently working on making a 3D configurator to automate the engineering proces, but i need some help with my workflow/general insight what method to apply.

To give a basic idea fo what im working in; a model to combine a motor and a gearbox according to the user input. 

Now both the motor and gearboxes have quite a few variants, which influence eachother, for my example i will use the motor.

The motor model basically consists of four parts;

- Flange size                 (1 to 10)

- Housing size              (1 to 12)

- Fancover size             (1 to 12) 

- Connection box size (1 to 5)

Now not every part can be assembled onto another, to give a few examples of this interaction:

- biggest flange (10) can not be assembled onto housing size 5 or below. 

- A certain fan size, lets say 6, can be executed in two lengts, depending on the user input, so we get 6A and 6B.

What im currently doing;

I made a iPart librairy of the motor as whole, with an excel sheet with every possibility, which is alot of possibilities and parameters...

I thought maybe splitting up the model into multiple iParts would be a better idea? This way the excel files remain small, and parameters within the excel will be little work to adjust. Altough if i do this the assemblyfile will be more complex since i need to put the parts thogether and they have some form of interaction...

In the assembly file i want the model to be dynamic, users usually pick a motor based on their flange- and housing size. Lets say i fill in flange size 10 in the form, then i want the possible housing to only show size 6 to 10. since 5 or below is not possible.

I need to do a simular type of model for the gearbox, just like described above for the motor. A certain pick of motor also limits the gearbox possibilities and vise versa, so this adds another level of complexity

I'm a bit lost and overwhelmed by the complexity of the assigment, and i would like to have some guidance to the right workflow/buildup of this model. Because there seems to be a trillion ways of approaching it

For your reference i found a website of a company that has a similar type of model, to get an idea of what im trying to do, click a bit throught the option; HERE

If the link is not allowed let me know, i will remove it, thank you all.

[kelly.young · Accepted solution]

Hello @Daan_M have you investigated Configurator360 yet?

There are a bunch of examples that should help you get started: Collection of iLogic Models For Beginners

For iLogic specific questions post at the Inventor Customization Forum. 

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