Hello,
I try to do something what seems to be simple but I have no idea how to do it - I use WF4.0 FAP
I want to create part with family table of available hot roled steel H or C sections which would be stored in read-only library. That is not difficult but using that part is not such. In steel structures you need to use the sections withdiferent size,length, holes, cutouts etc. what forces to savesuch file. Of course it is possible to copy this library file to working directory, make changes and rename it as well as family table instances but ... I wonder if it is possible to have a file with sketched curve of such C sections together with family table of its different sizes and when needed create new empty part, make reference to that sketched curve file, select size from family table (with possibility to change that size later), make extrusion, cut-outs, holes ... but how to do it?
Idea could be extended to special aluminium profiles which in case of big assemblyof the same profiles but different lengths would give easy update of all profiles by change of one section file...
I was trying with UDF's which seems to be best solution (gives possibility to change section size during design and not to loose cut outs references) but a little complicated usage for such purpose and I found difficulties with updating parameters stored in UDF's family table.
Creating library of separate sketches for every section size would be time consuming and would give no possibility to change its size during part design.
How have you solved such problem - I'm sure I'm not the first one who faced with it. Any ideas will be very welcome.
Slawek
I try to do something what seems to be simple but I have no idea how to do it - I use WF4.0 FAP
I want to create part with family table of available hot roled steel H or C sections which would be stored in read-only library. That is not difficult but using that part is not such. In steel structures you need to use the sections withdiferent size,length, holes, cutouts etc. what forces to savesuch file. Of course it is possible to copy this library file to working directory, make changes and rename it as well as family table instances but ... I wonder if it is possible to have a file with sketched curve of such C sections together with family table of its different sizes and when needed create new empty part, make reference to that sketched curve file, select size from family table (with possibility to change that size later), make extrusion, cut-outs, holes ... but how to do it?
Idea could be extended to special aluminium profiles which in case of big assemblyof the same profiles but different lengths would give easy update of all profiles by change of one section file...
I was trying with UDF's which seems to be best solution (gives possibility to change section size during design and not to loose cut outs references) but a little complicated usage for such purpose and I found difficulties with updating parameters stored in UDF's family table.
Creating library of separate sketches for every section size would be time consuming and would give no possibility to change its size during part design.
How have you solved such problem - I'm sure I'm not the first one who faced with it. Any ideas will be very welcome.
Slawek