Finding family table parts in an assembly

[shipley00]

Perhaps this would have been better placed in the assembly section, but...


I have a LARGE assembly (1500 unique subassemblies and parts, 2100 total components). I need to identify which parts are family table parts out of this massive assembly. I'm using Windchill, so normally you can identify parts in the workspace as a family table, but Windchill has a very annoying "unplaned feature" in that it will show all instance and generics of family table part, if you have an instance in your assemlby you just saved, but that's neither here nor there.


Any ideas? I have to identify these files because I'm required to change them from instances (of a family table) to stand alone parts.


Help!

 

[trillicomm]

when you Open, do you see the instances<generic>? if yes, turn this to NO in the config pro:

menu_show_instances

you then only see the generic items when you open

open the generic item, open its family table, edit in Excel to view all instances

 

[shipley00]

I didn't know there was a confiq setting to not show the instances. Interesting!


When I "open", how am to tell the diffence between a generic family table part and a normal (non family table) part?

 

[trillicomm]

it will prompt what instance you want to open, the default will be the generic.

 

[shipley00]

I don't think I did a very good job of explaining, so here's another stab at it. I have approximately 1500 component parts in a massive assemblyl. I have in the neighborhood of 30 to 40 of those components that are family table driven parts. The file names give NO clue to whether or not they are a family table part (instance or generic) or a regular part. One fine name I've ran across is something like:


fwd_panel_str.prt


That turned out to be an instance, another part


fwd_stringer_left.prt


That is a regular, non family table part.


I'm trying to find a way in Pro E to determine which files are family table parts.

 

[trillicomm]

did you assign NO to

menu_show_instances

 

[dross]

If you do an "Info" for the assy, you will get a path for the location of the model. If the model listed in the Path column is different than the model listed under "Name", then it'san instance.

 

[blockandahole]

If you are using PDMLink the easiest way is to set up a table view (only available in PDMLink 8) to show only generics

 

[blockandahole]

I should add - set up a table view in the active workspace.

 

[pjw]

How do you intend breaking family table members off from a generic if you are using Intralink 8 / PDMLink which are both Windchill based? You can no longer do this as you could do in Intralink 3x. Nor can you make standalone parts become family table members like you used to be able to do.


Phil