repeat region quesion w/ familty tables

[design-engine]

I have a cable tie that I am adding to a Bill of Material that will be shown inside a repeat region BOM of a drawing.My naming convention causes a problem because the customer wants to show the assigned part number in the table with out the specific lengths. For example I have a part number 50031227.prt for the generic cable tie. Then in my family table I have designed 50031227_8-3.prt to be a cable tie in the shape of an oval that is 8mm long with a 3mm diameter.How can I filter off everything after the underscore so the cable tie regardless of naming convention in the family table is off?

Come to think about it ... maybe its best to use flexible comonents. Oh well.

Since I ansered my own question then I have another...

If you show a cable tie in an exploded assembly, how do you show the cable tie? Tied already in its final position ... but the cables don't pull thru the tie strap... or in an open position as if it will be pulled tight and clipped?
Edited by: design-engine

 

[JFLORES]

Hey Bart,


What level an assembly are you taking about? Are you exploding a wire bundle assemblyor are you expoding an assembly where at least one of the sub-componets is a wire bundle that is retained within its routing path by cable ties that are not part of the wire bundle assemly?


There are no hard set rules for exploded assemblies. ASME Y14.24 does not define anexploded assembly as a type of engineering drawing.I believe a good assemly drawing should identify configuration and contents of the assembly by identifying componetns, componet locations as well as their orientations.


For the most part, when I explode an assembly with cable ties, the ties are shown in their final cinched and trimmedorientations. About the only time I do not is when that are part of a hardware kit for field replacable units. But even then I show them kind of half cinched becuase that way they take up less drawing space.


When you show a wire bundle in an exploded assembly do you show it in it's routed position or in the flatten out state? I would think that the same rhyme or reason for how you show your wire bundle should also apply to cable ties. I also would say that that your decision should be based on weather or not the advatages out weigh the disadvantages.


later Jim

 

[rcamp]

In the first row of the Repeat Region change the follow:<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">[/B]
Replace &asm.mbr.name with &rpt.rel.name

And add the following relation:

IF asm_mbr_name != "NULL"
pointer = search (asm_mbr_name,"_")
IF pointer == 0
name = asm_mbr_name
ELSE
index = pointer - 1.0
name = extract (asm_mbr_name, 1.0, index)
ENDIF
ENDIF