Deformable Part: Expressions in Number Range

[NutAce]

Hi All,

It has been a long time ago already so I thought I asked another Deformable part Question...

When I define a deformable part, where on of the Input Expressions has a Number range, I can give an expression for the Minimum and Maximum of the range.
However, the deformable part only takes the values of those expressions instead of referencing to them.

Is there any solution or workaround to drive the Minimum and Maximum with expressions?
Reason for this is that I want to use the Deformable part in a Part Family where the Min and Max are defined by the Partfamily parent spreadsheet

Thanks...

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5

HP Zbook15
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ
CPU @ 2.70 GHz Win7 64b
Nvidia K1100M 2048 MB DDR5

 

[jerry1423]

You can measure a distance using Analysis - > Measure Distance and toggle associative ON, and it will be saved as an expression.
Then the limit expressions can be based off of that expression.
When the part grows that measured distance expression will change.

 

[NutAce]

I think you misunderstood my question...

The limit values for the number range are already available as expressions (driven by the Partfamily).
But when I put the expressions in the correct fields in the Define Deformable part menu the values are taken. The reference to the expression is no longer there.
Attached a picture which might clarify it a bit...

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5

HP Zbook15
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ
CPU @ 2.70 GHz Win7 64b
Nvidia K1100M 2048 MB DDR5