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Designing castings in SW 2009

Designing castings in SW 2009

Designing castings in SW 2009

(OP)
I have switched from Proe to SW and wonder what the equivalent to merged parts is in SW's.

In proe you can merge a part into a new part number, creating a refernce copy which is one feature. You can then add machining details. If casting is changed the changes replicate down through merged parts.

Basically I want to create two machined versions of one raw casting amd maintain the parametric link between casting and machining's.



 

RE: Designing castings in SW 2009

Combine

RE: Designing castings in SW 2009

You can do this in SWX - look up derived part in the help.

RE: Designing castings in SW 2009

banghead ... That should have been Insert Part

RE: Designing castings in SW 2009

CBL is correct. The option is insert casting into a new part a do the machining operation.

Start a new part. Then Insert > Part and browse to the casting part.

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

RE: Designing castings in SW 2009

(OP)
Thanks very much. I am sure i'll have some more questions.

 

RE: Designing castings in SW 2009

You can also design your cast parts, make an assy, insert the finished part, use 'cavity' to remove material from the castings using the finished part.

Chris
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RE: Designing castings in SW 2009

GMNEW,

I used to design pneumatic tools and used SWX for this very purpose.  In the early versions of SWX this functionality was achieved with Insert->Base Part.  It is now simply Insert->Part as CBL said.

This is most likely the scenario you want.  The Base Part represents the casting.  The new part references this base part and probably only involves machining to remove material.  If the casting (base part) changes then your machined part changes accordingly, as you would want it to.  I used to make all my new features (cuts) in this machined part file a different color.  It made it a dream to conduct design reviews with the machinists.

- - -Updraft

RE: Designing castings in SW 2009

Another approach, you could try creating configurations in 1 part file "Machined" & "Unmachined".

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