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Inter-part Reference Dimensions

Inter-part Reference Dimensions

Inter-part Reference Dimensions

(OP)
Hello, my name is Joe.

I have worked at Cal Trans with Unigraphics NX for about a year.

I apologize in advance for the noob question.

I need to do something in Solidworks for my Formula SAE team and cannot for the life of me find out how to link dimensions between parts.

In UGS NX you can easily link expressions and dimensions between parts so you can update one and all the other parts will update with the newly modified dimension in an assembly.

So say I have multiple components with multiple holes all with the same dimension. Is there a way to link all those parts and holes to a single dimension value that I could change, and all the other parts would update with that new value.

The only way I can think of doing it is making a design table for each part and then somehow referencing an assembly design table but I'm sure there is an easier way.

Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions.

RE: Inter-part Reference Dimensions

In the assembly define global variables. And link ever dimension which you you want to link to those variables.

If there are not much number of parts then you can link their values using equation in the assembly.

Look at this post for clarifications
https://forum.solidworks.com/message/113945#113945

Deepak Gupta
SW2009 SP3.0
SW2007 SP5.0
MathCAD 14.0

RE: Inter-part Reference Dimensions

(OP)
Thank you so much. I already created a global variable but it didn't show up when I tried to modify the dimension through the part file. So I kind of just gave up on that.

However, this time I double clicked on the part in the assembly, and then double clicked the dimension, and I was able to add the global variable to the equation. Thank you so much. You were a great help.

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