Mixing simplified reps and family tables

[tosh382]

I have been using Pro/E quite a while now.


Simplified rep's arefor designing and presenting ofproducts in peer/management meetings.


Family tables are for cataloging and documenting product variants for the employer and theirmanufacturing sources.
Edited by: tosh382

 

[TMPENG]

Were a still a little too small to implement windchill. I have 4 people running Creo, but I am looking ahead and trying to make decisions on things like the use of family tables so that moving forward I can use PDM without blowing up my legacy systems.

I appreciate your time, and I understand everyone is busy. I do not need a response right away so please get your work done and get back to me whenever you get a chance.

Thanks again.

 

[srieger]

You are never too small to implement Windchill. We have 2 people running Creo. About 25 people accessing viewables via Windchill. It is a huge asset to operate within Windchill. Granted, the investment isa bit larger than I would like, but with the time and energy I save elsewhere and the document management capabilities for not only Creo but any other type of document, it's well worth it.

 

[TMPENG]

Hi Mike,

I was wondering if you could still help me out with our
last post regarding familiy tables? It sounds like you have a solution
for my issue.

Thank you for your time,
Matt

 

[canoemike]

TMPENG
"The problem is that I cannot use the parametric balloons with the top level generic BOM to balloon the instance views. So I can either use manually placed non-parametric balloons, or I can insert BOM repeat regions for each instance, and fix the indices of each to match the the top level generic BOM. Either way is cumbersome."

Any thoughts? Yes

As for balloons, we use one that is parametric that is driven by a part parameter. This is done by creating a custom balloon that pulls the part parameter. This way the part detail number is always robust. The fix indices never has to be used.

 

[TMPENG]

Mike, thank you very much for your time. What you said makes total sense. I appreciate your time.