It was developed to build highway trucks in Creo, where each truck is built from a list of bill of materials, each bill representing a component and it's placement on the truck. The objective of modelling in Creo is to ensure all components ordered for the truck can be fitted. One example as to...
I like that approach robertib, I can see the benefits in that, but it requires constantly updating ProProgram each time a new instance is added.
In my environment where ProProgram is over 150,000 lines, a large assembly consisting of hundreds of sub-assemblies, and dozens of new instances added...
Each instance will be an assembly, e.g. if generic is FRUIT.ASM, the instances will be APPLE_INST.ASM, PEAR_INST.ASM etc.
It's useful to add the "_INST" to the instance label for 'housekeeping' purposes.
Add a string parameter say 'FRUIT_SELECT', this string will hold the selection of the NAME...