Family-table members

[dentschev]

Hi group!

I often have to use instances that change only one dimension. For instance:
I have to assembly I-beams and I have a family table for that. The problem is that sometimes I need different lenghts of the same beam-dimension/instance.

Do I have to take the lenght as a family table parameter? But then I would have more than a lot of instances... For every centimeter of lenght an own instance could not be a solution, right? Is there another way??

 

[robertib]

The best way would be to use Edit -> Setup -> Flexibility. This will allow you to set the length to be flexible, allowing you to have multiple versions of the I-beam with different lengths in the same assembly. Of course, this does mean that the different lengths will have the same part name as far as the BOM is concerned.

 

[dentschev]

Thank you very much, Robert!

A cool idea!
If I have inderstood right I will have a beam threated like a spring or another elastic element??

Nikola

 

[SW]

Assuming Robert was thinking what I'm thinking, yes, the beam would
behave like a spring. You could do the same thing with an assembly
relation to set the length of the beam, but the flexiblility route is
probably better.



Sam