Family Table issues

[prdtro]

Where I work, we do not use Family tables, apparently Pro/INTRALINK does not work well with them??? That's what I've been told anyways. Has anyone had any issues with Family Tables & Intralink? Or isn't there any real issues. I worked with them a little bit back in college, and I've messed around with them a little bit on my own projects. But never in Intralink. If anyone has any thoughts/info/advice/etc, please let me know. Thanks!

Ted

 

[charleskim]

We use family table with Intralink all the time and we don't have any issues.

You just need to make sure that instances are verified everytime you modify the family table.

 

[proed]

We use some family tables - for library parts, etc... As above - make sure you verify before saving the generic.



Also - Lock the generic before checking it out to change it: There are often problems when people have different versions of a family table and add/delete instances. They're faced with error messages when they try to check in again.



Make use of the include instances option when checking out a family table to modify it.



Most of the problems come from the way Intralink represents each instance as a seperate object. Without Intralink, they would all be included in the generic file...

 

[prdtro]

What do you mean verify the generic & instances? What does the include instances option do?



Thanks!

 

[charleskim]

Verify: In family table menu there is a function called Verify and it MUST be used everytime you make a change.

This function will regenerate every instances to make sure model is good and it gets the information ready for Intralink.



Include instances: When you checkout family table part from Intralink, you have a option to 'include instances' like prdtro said it is recommended to do so.

If you don't check out instances, you won't be able to do anything (replce a instance with another instance or make any change to that part).