×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Design Tables?

Design Tables?

Design Tables?

(OP)
I have successfully inserted design tables into part files to generate multiple configurations. In some files I deleted the design table afterwards, in some files I left the design table alone. What is considered the "best practice"? I would also like to make derived configurations of the configurations generated by the design table (same geometry, different part # & material).

This has been working without any issues in SW2001 - SW2003. Now that I upgraded to SW2004 all my configurations are using the same dimensions.

Any ideas on how to salvage my files with their configurations and derived configurations?

RE: Design Tables?

I think somewhere in the options there is a check for them to all be the same ("All Configurations"), but I don't have it on this box, so I have to trust you will find it or someone will help.

If I never need the Design Table again, I delete them. For standard parts that have a bunch of configs, I save the design table externally, and delete it from the file, just in case. If i ever need to change the stuff in the DT, like the "matl" for instance, I change the external table, and then re-import the DT into the part to update all the configs.

-----------
Mr. Pickles

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources