good day,
i've just started to use solidworks 2005 a couple of weeks before and there are tons of questions which i hope someone here is kind enough to help me out.
first of all, is it possible to have a standard part (eg. a cylinder) which i can fit to a number of projects? currently, i have a standard part (cylinder) saved with its part number as its filename. i use "insert->components->existing parts/assembly"
for example, i have a cylinder with 100mm stroke. it will work fine if i'm fitting it to a project, which need the cylinder to extend 50mm only. however, if i were to use the very same cylinder in another project which needs it to extend 80mm, the original part will have a condition of extending 80mm instead of 100mm. worse still, the first design that used the cylinder will now have a stroke of 80mm instead of 50mm.
i hope you guys can understand what i'm trying to tell and i would be grateful if someone can solve this problem for me.
i've just started to use solidworks 2005 a couple of weeks before and there are tons of questions which i hope someone here is kind enough to help me out.
first of all, is it possible to have a standard part (eg. a cylinder) which i can fit to a number of projects? currently, i have a standard part (cylinder) saved with its part number as its filename. i use "insert->components->existing parts/assembly"
for example, i have a cylinder with 100mm stroke. it will work fine if i'm fitting it to a project, which need the cylinder to extend 50mm only. however, if i were to use the very same cylinder in another project which needs it to extend 80mm, the original part will have a condition of extending 80mm instead of 100mm. worse still, the first design that used the cylinder will now have a stroke of 80mm instead of 50mm.
i hope you guys can understand what i'm trying to tell and i would be grateful if someone can solve this problem for me.