Installation Assemblies

[smonday]

We have within our top-level assemblies several "installation" assemblies. In order to accurately detail these installations we have to assemble a higher-level assembly into the installation assembly. The problem with this is when we "install" the installation into the upper level assembly, our outputted BOM's (from Info>Bill of Materials or an exported BOM from Interlink) are all messed up showing double and triple counts (depending on how many installation's there are) of the upper lever assemblies.<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />


We have also looked at creating a simplified representation of the top-level assembly, then go ahead and install the installation assembly thencreating a drawing with both models within the drawing, one for the views, and one for the BOM. Then the problem with this is we have to manually create our balloons and they are not parametric!!


The problem isn't in the drawings, we are using recursive and filters for our repeat regions, and the problem is when trying to output Bills of Materials from Pro/E or from Interlink.


We have thought about using shrinkwrap assemblies and sub-assemblies but there are serious reservations about these not being parametric.


Any help or suggestions would be appreciated


Regards,


Scott Monday


email: [email protected]


Designer


AAR Mobility Systems


201 Haynes St.


Cadillac, MI 49601


Phone: 231-779-4905

 

[sip]

Scott,


Iused a skeleton with publish geom/copy geomin each installation assembly to mountsubassembly componentsto. They can be filtered out easily in the assembly BOM. You can hide the skeletons on layers, so they don't show up in the assembly. In the top level assemblyI made simplified reps to show only whatwas needed to show how the installation assembly goes into the top level assembly. It came out fairly clean on the drawings.


hope this helps


Sip

 

[jfougner]

You can also :


1)Assemble your installation into the top level assembly


2)From the model tree, select the installation > right mouse click > activate


3) Assemble your components, but select the references from the top level assembly


This is just a way to populate an assembly without additional geometry in the file. If you have time to do so, skeletons, as Scott suggests,work great as well.


Best Regards,


Jay