It has recently been asked in our office if we can do an automatic nozzle type of object.
Basically, in this case, a nozzle is a flange (weld neck, slip on, or plate) with a pipe attached to it.
Ideally, you'd place the nozzle in the assembly and it'd prompt you for flange size and length of pipe. And then it'd create the nozzle for you to constrain as you see fit. This process would need repeated up to possibly 50 times in an assembly.
Complicating this issue is the fact we would want the flanges to be flanges we have in our database so that it contains our part number and material. It would seem the only ways to do this would be to either create every possible flange and pipe as either iparts or in the content center so it can be extracted to the final assembly.
Is there any other method of doing this that i'm missing? Trying to get other viewpoints and/or see if anyone's tried anything similar before.
