Breaking the family table

[rrajapur]

Hi!


I have a generic model driving 24instence models ina family table comprising totally 25 models including the generic.In this, 9 are casting, 9 are machining (Type 1) and remaining 8 are machining (Type 2). There are drawings associated to each of these models.Due to some process/system constraint, I'll not be able to checkin the model in the intralink. For this reason, I need to break the family table and make the models and drawingsindipendent but should have associativity. Can any one help me in this regard? Its very urgent.


thanks in advance


Regards


Rajeev

 

[PRStockhausen]

For the future I would make casting/machined parts as follows: Create the as cast model. Create the machined parts by using an external inheritance from the cast part, dependant so any changes will be reflected in the machined part after regen. You can have any number of machined parts for a given cast part. For what youhave to deal with now you may want to convert to the methodI discribed or live with the lack of associativity by saving each of the needed intances as standalone parts.

 

[dr_gallup]

Open all drawings in session (you probably can not open that many windows at once but you need to have them all in memory) then open the generic part and delete the family table. It will warn you that the parts are no longer table driven. Now save each drawing. Remember, if you use these parts in assemblies, Pro/E will have lost the association there too. You can do this one at a time too by just deleting one line from the generic family table.