assembly driven part features?
assembly driven part features?
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Im currently working with SW2007. I'm designing 2 fixtures to check length tolerances on this wire harness. One fixture will check the mean part print dimensions, one will check the min. part print dimensions. I have one big bass plate and about 15 different riser brackets with clip-blocks that that various connectors on the wire harness plug into.
Since i have one mean-size fixture and one min-size fixture i have drawn out the part itself to min and mean size and have used the mean configuration of that wiring harness as a basis for the riser bracket hole locations in my base plate. All my assembly mates move relative to the wiring harness. Is there any way i can base the location of those mounting holes in the bass on the position of my wiring harness and brackets in the assembly? In other words - if i move one of my brackets in my assembly i want the mounting holes in the bass-plate part file to change and update accordingly?
I know i can add cuts to an assembly file, but I guess im trying to use assembly mates as a basis for the location of holes on an individual part in that assembly.
Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks!
Since i have one mean-size fixture and one min-size fixture i have drawn out the part itself to min and mean size and have used the mean configuration of that wiring harness as a basis for the riser bracket hole locations in my base plate. All my assembly mates move relative to the wiring harness. Is there any way i can base the location of those mounting holes in the bass on the position of my wiring harness and brackets in the assembly? In other words - if i move one of my brackets in my assembly i want the mounting holes in the bass-plate part file to change and update accordingly?
I know i can add cuts to an assembly file, but I guess im trying to use assembly mates as a basis for the location of holes on an individual part in that assembly.
Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks!






RE: assembly driven part features?
See the help for understanding of Top-down design.
You would have to edit the part at the assembly level and make the hole using something of the assembly or other parts to control its location, so if you do move something in the assembly the hole will follow.
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RE: assembly driven part features?
The one thing you will need to make sure of is that in your assembly, you are not mating your riser brackets concentric to the holes in the base plate. Because at this point you will have a circular reference.
-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Professional
RE: assembly driven part features?
The insight i gleaned from sw help was to in-context something i can simply right-click the desired part and edit it within the assembly.
In order to set relations between those bracket mtg. holes and the base holes do i have to <i>create</i> a part within that assembly based on an assembly sketch?
Thanks very much
Jay Warnke
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Fixturefanetic
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Right now the brackets that you see are driven to their positions based on lengths of a wire harness that they mate to in the assembly. I have mated the base plate with distances from its faces to the central planes on the wire harness. I also mated all the riser brackets parallel to the bass plate surface.
The red circles are some tapped holes that i while in the assembly cut into the base plate part. While in my hole wizard i was able to drag and drop the points of the holes concentric to the centers of the thru holes on the corresponding brackets, but the points remained blue - undefined.
When i switch to my short-length wire harness config, all the brackets move with the wire harness - the base plate stays in position relative to the distance mates i made between the base plate and the wire harness planes, but the holes i cut in to my part do not move and stay concentric to the bracket holes.
Sorry for all the questions! Ill stop bugging you guys after this. Thanks :)
RE: assembly driven part features?
Are you pre-selecting (clicking on) the face before activating the Hole Wizard?
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-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Professional
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Fixturefanetic
RE: assembly driven part features?
-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Professional
RE: assembly driven part features?
Also, you need to learn how to use the Command Manager... its so much easier to use IMO and it saves on a A LOT of real estate for the graphics area.
Attached is my working area in an assembly.
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