Tabulated Part, Defining Features in Assembly
Tabulated Part, Defining Features in Assembly
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Good day all,
I'm a relatively new SW user (about a month) coming from being a power user in Inventor. Most of the features and commands from one to the other are pretty parallel, and in fact I'm finding SW a bit more intuitive. I have yet to figure one thing out though that I would find helpful. Either it's a really easy solution or it may not be able to be done in SW.
I've gotten the hang, pretty quickly, of configurations and using the Design Table function. However, I am wondering if there is a way that I can create a part that asks me for a defining feature only when I place it into an assembly. This was something I did and took advantage of often in Inventor and am just trying to make my SW experience as equal as my AI experience.
For example: Say I need to create an assembly with different lengths of the same diameter piping. In Inventor, I could create a tabulated part and define the length of the pipe as a parameter to be defined later in an assembly. So I create a 1.5" Sch. 40 pipe part number, place it into an assembly and it prompts me to enter a length. That way, I don't have to create a model or configuration for each length of pipe I will need. This is very similar to how the Tool Box fasteners come in. Select a diameter and define a length. I just can't seem to recreate it!
Any help is appreciated, thank you.
I'm a relatively new SW user (about a month) coming from being a power user in Inventor. Most of the features and commands from one to the other are pretty parallel, and in fact I'm finding SW a bit more intuitive. I have yet to figure one thing out though that I would find helpful. Either it's a really easy solution or it may not be able to be done in SW.
I've gotten the hang, pretty quickly, of configurations and using the Design Table function. However, I am wondering if there is a way that I can create a part that asks me for a defining feature only when I place it into an assembly. This was something I did and took advantage of often in Inventor and am just trying to make my SW experience as equal as my AI experience.
For example: Say I need to create an assembly with different lengths of the same diameter piping. In Inventor, I could create a tabulated part and define the length of the pipe as a parameter to be defined later in an assembly. So I create a 1.5" Sch. 40 pipe part number, place it into an assembly and it prompts me to enter a length. That way, I don't have to create a model or configuration for each length of pipe I will need. This is very similar to how the Tool Box fasteners come in. Select a diameter and define a length. I just can't seem to recreate it!
Any help is appreciated, thank you.






RE: Tabulated Part, Defining Features in Assembly
Jeff Mirisola, CSWE
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RE: Tabulated Part, Defining Features in Assembly
You should check out all the capabilities of Toolbox. I'll bet it can do what you want, but you might have to add custom profiles. Look particularly at how it handles the insertion of structural shapes such as angle iron and channel. These are actually just sketch profiles that are extruded to the length. I do not use this feature so I can't tell you exactly how to do it, but it sure looks like the road you are looking for.
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RE: Tabulated Part, Defining Features in Assembly
Routing looks interesting, and the toolbox idea does as well. I didn't know you can add custom profiles to Toolbox. It's not specifically pipe I was looking for, just an example. I'll investigate what you guys have said and see how it goes.
Thanks again.
E. Morel
M.E.