Family of parts, and variables

[basher99]

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.

 

[beachcomber]

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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[basher99]

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.