"configurations"

[PaoloR1]

Hi.
in inventor exists the possibility of having the configurations?
I explain: in solidworks you build a piece, long example 100. if you have the need to have the same piece, but 150-160 and 170 long, you create a configuration where, within the same file, there are the 4 pieces, with the distinct characteristics one from the other.

There's something like that in the inventor? How does it work?

Thank you and hello to everyone.

 

[MauroM]

go to the table of parameters, in the column "equation" from a dx mouse in the cell of the length and the "return to multiple values".
Maybe it's not exactly what you wanted but it's already something.

 

[Zac69]

try looking for what it is and how you create iparts. I think that's what you're looking for.

Hi.

 

[Tarkus]

try looking for what it is and how you create iparts. I think that's what you're looking for.

Hi.

depends on what you have to do.
iparts create more files, to keep in mind when they are added together.

 

[Zac69]

depends on what you have to do.
iparts create more files, to keep in mind when they are added together.

Yeah, you're right. That's why I told him to take a look at the help and see how they work.
but they are as close to the configurator as you speak, unless you use ilogic.

Hi.

 

[Tarkus]

but how does the solid configurator work?
do you know that if I want to insert the same file in multiple assemblies but configured differently, I do not create files even with solidworks?

 

[Zac69]

I've never seen it, but it seems that you set up a set of data, and he secondly creates that same together but with the parts modeled differently.
for how I see it is a kind of ipart or ilogic created on a multybody that varies the axieme/part modeling differently the components/body.http://help.solidworks.com/2012/italian/solidworks/sldworks/hidd_configurator_table.htmIt would be nice to explain it to us paolo, to which it serves, so maybe we could be more help without having to study solidwork to propose correspondence with inventor

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

not necessarily.
in solidworks in a part file you can have n° configurations in which you can change even heavily geometry (for example you can have the finished part after processing and the raw part then with overmetal and without holes or other removals)
Also for the axieme can be more configuration in which each recalls a predetermined configuration of part.

it is also necessary to remember that in solidworks the multibody part file is managed (a structure loose in practice) while, if I do not remember badly, in inventor a multibody is in fact a set

 

[ninfh]

I have no idea how solidworks functions, but the inventor's multibody is also done on part files (ipt) and then wanting you can transform it together and transform the bodies into single parts, if you want to change you can work on the part where the multibody was made,

on solidworks configurations how they work? Is it the equivalent of suppressing work and saving its rappresence (as on inventor's assemblies) or is it more complex?

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

Then I remembered badly. I had underhand inventor for a short time and a long time ago I had just curioused the software.
So inventor, I don't know him at all.
in solidwork funzona so:
We put that you have a 100x100 500 long plate with a set of 10 ø25 holes, you can create a configuration in which you make a length of 870, one in which you make ø40 holes, one in which the series is from 3 holes, one in which you add a milling process. all this simply by selecting the quota and indicating to which configuration it is linked. same thing applies to functions that can be activated or suspended discriminately.
then wanting you can manage and create automatically using excel tables (e.g. all sizes of a hexagnal head screw)

 

[ninfh]

so it looks like the same thing you do with inventor with ipart and iassembly (that idiot names), I imagine the differences then be on the management of files of the various configurations

 

[re_solidworks]

Then I remembered badly. I had underhand inventor for a short time and a long time ago I had just curioused the software.
So inventor, I don't know him at all.
in solidwork funzona so:
We put that you have a 100x100 500 long plate with a set of 10 ø25 holes, you can create a configuration in which you make a length of 870, one in which you make ø40 holes, one in which the series is from 3 holes, one in which you add a milling process. all this simply by selecting the quota and indicating to which configuration it is linked. same thing applies to functions that can be activated or suspended discriminately.
then wanting you can manage and create automatically using excel tables (e.g. all sizes of a hexagnal head screw)

exact, in practice you can vary all the numerical parameters, either suppress one or more features and manage the properties (metadati) for single configuration. the generated file is only one and the nice is that you can easily change configuration within component repetitions. if for example repeat 40 screws and on these 40 you need 10 court you can do it with 2 clicks. even if they are the same file the distinct creates 2 items with the correct quantities.

 

[re_solidworks]

I have no idea how solidworks functions, but the inventor multibody is also done on part files (ipt) and then wanting you can transform it together and transform the bodies into single parts....

this also makes it solidworks, but the real advantage is not to create the axieme that depends on the multibody. there is the possibility to create the cutting distinction directly from the side (no additional external file) and in case of modification it is much easier and faster to get rid of the burden of many external files reported.

 

[PaoloR1]

I am using solidwork from a customer, and honestly configurations are very comfortable.
I'm creating equipment for a cutter that blocks the piece on the table. Since there are more possible solutions, with obvious consequences of costs, I have created on the same file (assieme and not) configurations. just call the file, and click on which configuration you want to see. in the assemblies you must leave the various relationships (legends), but depending on the configuration you call, turn off (one time) the relationships that do not concern the configurations. today we had the meeting with the end user, and by clicking on the various configurations, he understood the differences of design. Very comfortable.

 

[PaoloR1]

example the jaw blocks piece: the jaw file has the part that "touch" the piece with a smooth configuration, the other zigrinata. doing clik clik with the mouse, it seems to see the sequence of a film.

 

[ninfh]

thanks to the polishing on solidworks, a pity I know too little to really understand the differences in the practice of use


with inventor to make a bite with different jaws I would do it with an ipart, doing the rectangle of the "neutral" jaw and configuring only the various processes that are above to shape it, double click on the browser on the wild configuration and on.
a thing like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn3mizvq24i (first result of google with for iassembly inventor) in the film configures a bond instead of activating/disactivating work, but it's the same thing

Alternatively, separate pieces can be prepared to set different views/positions

 

[ninfh]

Maybe something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t6zjwbguys It's more useful, it explains how to do, how the separate components work and putting them on the table.