Hello
I think the need to parameterize the pieces in the assemblies for certain processes is very felt. in carpentry by making brackets, panels, one could build standard models that recalled in the various appropriately renamed assemblies, should in my opinion be able to take certain quotas, established a priori, from values given in the axieme.
how does the family table work?
Of course this would cut your legs a little bit to the various configurators.
I have a lot of document models that I go to parameterize inside the axiemas by leaning on the skeletons. attention because I do not talk about the layout and functions connected to the layout but of parts or assemblies which can contain anything useful to me to make the elements dialogue well. I have never used excel sheets to fly the elements, I tried but I prefer to act directly on the odds of a sketch and see in real time geometric change. at the end is like doing a 2d or 3d study to reuse to aggregate the elements between them.
in some cases this technique does not bring benefits in terms of time but undoubtedly leads to a drastic reduction of errors in design.
to return to the topic it is possible to parameterize a small group and acting on the skeletons it is possible to treat a subassieme as if it were a part with the total guarantee that the changes on the parts follow the skeleton without giving problems.
proe family are a bit like the data tables of swx, in principle the concept is the same. I used them and are easier to do, it seems strange but, in this case, the interface of proe is easier and intuitive than that of swx, and allow a more capillary management of information. proe obliges you to use family to manage variants and if this may appear as a waste of time for a swx user, it prevents you from making bulk configurations of which then you can lose traces.
When family models are put on the table, the proe report tables to show variants are extremely flexible and crossing filters you can really do nice things. The insertion of filters is not as intuitive as the creation of the family as you have to insert hand strings. the same applies to the creation of tables with repetition regions that are compiled in a parametric way.
in this swx is a little too sharp and those who use proe find it a poor tool, but with the family we do not solve the problem object of the discussion, or better, we solve it to the same extent as it is resolved with the data tables.
Maybe I'm going to say a huge nonsense because I only remember that he was talking about it in a presentation, but what you're referring to is no longer close to using smart components?
In any case it also happens to us to use carpentry details always equal as shape but of different size, to be configured from time to time in the axieme. I think a good starting point comes from how they shape the parts.
For example, if a certain u sheet, with always the same size is made vary only in length (extrusion), you can carry the extrusion to a plan created specifically in the part. when you bring the u into the axieme you redefine the plan by making it correspond to the appropriate size.. .
this is just an example, quite stupid and perhaps not very comfortable but allows the reuse of the parts.. .
I see the intelligent components as an ease for those who use so many times an object and with these I would recreate the functions and positions necessary for the assembly of this object on your whole in a completely automatic way.
