What is a skeleton part?
What is a skeleton part?
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What is a skeleton part and how can they be used?
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RE: What is a skeleton part?
Make sense?
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RE: What is a skeleton part?
RE: What is a skeleton part?
I like the idea, but have found issues with it in the real world. Specifically, most MRP and ECN systems (and the folks who run them) do not look kindly upon skeleton part files.
My compromise is to have top-level assembly sketches that I use for subordinate parts. I can't have surfaces or bodies, but it is a good middle ground.
RE: What is a skeleton part?
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RE: What is a skeleton part?
Ok. with that out of the way, next question: why not just use in-context?
In-context makes links, one part references another, right? well if you do that for a few parts, it's already hard to really track what's going on right? what is tied to what, and how? By using a skeleton part you know all the links are funneled to and through the skeleton part.
For sure it's an old Pro|E term, this technique has been employed practically since its birth in the early '90s. Way before my time, that's for sure!
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RE: What is a skeleton part?
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RE: What is a skeleton part?
-Dustin
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RE: What is a skeleton part?
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RE: What is a skeleton part?
If you are creating a planar mechanism a 2D sketch will work just fine in either an assembly or a part.
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RE: What is a skeleton part?
Now you are providing numerous valid answers. Why did you start this thread?
-Dustin
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RE: What is a skeleton part?
Dan
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RE: What is a skeleton part?
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