Mass fields in Revision Manager -Feature Lib in Weldment Environment

[lPiet]

To the Swertels, Edgeomatics, Pekelders and the likes….

I started working on SE fairly recently. I had a look at all the questions & answers on the forum – the advice had been helpful and impressive.

1. I need to supply the masses of all the components and subcomponents of assemblies that consist of weldments for quotation purposes and as input for the design of the mounting structure. All the info shows up OK at the Inspect Physical Propery Tab for the components, weldments and assemblies. I want to present this information in a spreadsheet format that shows the complete breakdown. Is there any way that I can add the mass fields to the property reports generated by revision manager – of all the columns I can select I can get as far as density. Isn’t there some file somewhere to mod –the mass information is surely accessible to the program? The mass field can be added to the standard reports (BOM, Exploded BOM etc) but I can not seem to get a breakdown beyond the weldment level.

2. My current projects needs a little welding and a lot of machining afterwards. It seems that the feature library utility is not available in the weldment environment -can you confirm this? Any suggestions? I need to do the same type of machining on several places on the weldment.

Thanks in advance

LPiet

 

[swertel]

Number 2 first.

The weldment environment is very lacking. I haven't gone too deep in the feature library so I can't give the 100% answer that it can't be done, but I can say that it can't be done easily. There may very well be something I'm missing also.


Number 1.

I don't build reports too often, so I can't explain much in those terms, but I can relate based on the bill of materials command in draft.

When you add the mass to the BOM column, it takes the physical property of each component that would show up in the BOM. Basically, this column is the property text (as if you created your own callout) of "%{mass|filename.ext}" without the quotes.

A weldment is considered a single part. So, if you take the BOM of a weldment, it will show its constituent parts. But, when you put that weldment into an upper assembly, then only the weldment shows up because single parts do not have component parts. That's their logic, anyway. There are enhancment requests to adjust this logic. I recommend you submit your own.

So the problem is not getting the mass, the problem is breaking down the weldment into it subcomponents. The only way to get around this is to essentially place the assembly that defined the weldment in the next level assembly with the weldment. You can then tell it to not include in mass properties, do not display when attached as subassembly, etc. per component properties.

Kind of a cluge work around, but it will get you there.

--Scott

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