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Inter-part links with family of assemblies?

Inter-part links with family of assemblies?

Inter-part links with family of assemblies?

(OP)
Hi,

   I have an assembly of a lift table and I want to show it in two positions one when it's at his lowest and one when it's at his highest. So then I want to do a family of assembly in order to have two position for the same model. But my problem is when I want to do this Solid Edge alert me that all my inter-part links will be broken. Is that true? because I really don't want to lose the links. Is there a workaround for this or another solution?

Thanks in advance.

Patrick
SE V17 SP8

RE: Inter-part links with family of assemblies?

Hi,

yup, that's the case and there are other things to consider
when converting an asm to a FOA see SE Help topic:

Alternate Assemblies Impact on Solid Edge Functionality

At the mo I don't know of a practicable workaround

dy

RE: Inter-part links with family of assemblies?

There are 2 types of family of assemblies -
1) the alternate position assembly and
2) the alternate assembly.
I don't know if the alternate postion assembly breaks the links - could be worth a try.

bc

RE: Inter-part links with family of assemblies?

(OP)
Thanks guys

 I've done some testing with the alternate position assembly and the links made with PEER VARIABLES were good the problem was with the inter-part copies, solid edge warned me when I wanted to edit the inter-part copy that he cannot support the links because the part is used for different assembly. or something like that so... For those who wanted to know, the inter-part links are broken when you update an assembly to a family of assembly.

As a workaround I think I will promote the use of peer variables instead of inter-part copies and see what I can do with that.

Have a nice day

Patrick

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