skeleton VS regular part

[solidworm]

whats the difference between a skeleton part and a regular part? in top down design, assembly parts can reference surfaces,chains and datums from a regular part positioned at the top of the tree too.
so what is the significance of a skeleton part compared to a regular part containing the same geometry?

Edited by: solidworm

 

[mroywsp]

you can read the help center of proe,there is the expaination of the skeleton.

 

[m-d-e]

Skeleton parts don't show in the part list (BOM?) in the assembly drawing. You don't have to manually remove them.

 

[zpaolo]

m-d-e is right, and skeleton parts don't show up in drawings unless you chose them too. But actually even "standard" parts can be excluded from BOMS, drawings and mass/volume calcualtions, the advantage of skeleton parts is that they are "meant" to be used like that, and using skeletons you are clearly stating that somewhere in your assembly there is some top down design, driven by the skeleton. So at the end of the day, using skeleton is just a good practice IMO

Paolo

 

[rklatte]

It's kind of like the motion skeleton functionality you've
been experimenting with lately

. You could do the
same thing without the dedicated motion skeleton commands
and workflow that Pro/e has but these are supposed to make
it faster. (At least that's the conclusion I came to)

 

[design-engine]

The skeleton part was added to Pro/ENGINEER as an actual featured part in release 20 in 1998

It was added because the librarians of the major manufactures complained that sending a part to a PDM system would drag many components via an assembly constraint all together into the PDM system filling up the hard drive. Plus the master merge technique that was poplar at the time carried too much weight in that each part would contain the entire master part within it. The new technique allows more control over what is exactly a reference thus offering lighter references and more control.

 

[solidworm]

thanks for all of your replies! i'll play more with skeletons and get back!