Move/Copy body controlled by a design Table
Move/Copy body controlled by a design Table
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Hi. I want to know if it is possible to control a move/Copy Feature in a part with a Design Table. I mean, I know I can supress the feature, but I want to control the distance in, said X, only with one move/copy feature and values in the design table, instead add a lot of features and supress and unsupress them.
Thanks for your help.
Thanks for your help.






RE: Move/Copy body controlled by a design Table
RE: Move/Copy body controlled by a design Table
RE: Move/Copy body controlled by a design Table
In the long run, I believe you will be further ahead to keep the commercial part as an assy & use the DT to control the placement of a part or parts using the assy mates. As far as I'm aware, the multi-body function does not give you this opportunity.
Try posting your part number macro in this forum & ask the VB/API gurus how it can be made to work with assemblies.
RE: Move/Copy body controlled by a design Table
I tried to do this with a Design Table too. I could not figure out the variable names in the Move/Copy Feature either. So what I did was make multiple Move/Copy Features, and just suppressed all of them but one for each different configurations/positions I needed.
I worked, but as stated above I find it easier to work with and would reccommend using assembly mates if at all possible. Manipulating multi-body parts is not User Friendly at all.
Ken
RE: Move/Copy body controlled by a design Table
As for the dimensions used in the Move/Copy Body. As you already know you cannot add those dims to the DT. Most certainly because:
1) DT don't use Negative numbers and working in Delta you might have them
2) The dims are embedded into the feature, so they are unaccessable.
The only to do is with KenBolen's Suggestion, of multiple Unsuppression and Suppression in the DT.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
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RE: Move/Copy body controlled by a design Table
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Jason Capriotti
Smith & Nephew, Inc.
RE: Move/Copy body controlled by a design Table
RE: Move/Copy body controlled by a design Table
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