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Family of parts, and variables

Family of parts, and variables

Family of parts, and variables

(OP)
Fairly new to SolidEdge, so I'm hoping I'm just overlooking something obvious. Anyway.

I created a family of parts. The 'parent' has a variable for the length of the part, and the numerous 'children' are all just variations of this variable.

When I insert the part into an assembly, it works fine, but if I try to put it into a schedule, there is no length variable that I can expose.

If I go into the individual family of parts .par files, I can add a dimension, and then create a length variable, but it seems like I should be able to pull that out w/o having to go into each and every member of this family of parts.

Any suggestions, tips, tricks, would be appreciated.

RE: Family of parts, and variables

As you have found, Solid Edge creates seperate part files for each family member, therefore any variables that you need to extract into a parts list (through an assembly) will have to be in each part file.

Drawing is a different matter - you can use the family part master file and then tabulate dimensions for all members.

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RE: Family of parts, and variables

(OP)
I'm seeing that. Just would be nice, during the creation of the family of parts, if you could elect to have exposed variables in the parent part 'tag-along' automatically when you populated the family.

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