Breaking Apart the Family Table

[looslib]

We are looking at eliminating our family tables and converting all of the instances to individual parts. We would them create a master template for each family and use that to create new parts in a family.

How can we get the instances out of a family table and saved as individual parts?

I know I can delete the instances and then use the 'generic' file as the template, but some of the tables have 50-100 parts in them.

We have only been on Pro/E for less than 2 years so we only have about 15-10 family tables and they are all hardware items; nuts, capscrews, bolts, washers, etc.



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Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand

 

[Arlin]

Open the generic
Load EACH instance of the generic into memory
Go to the generic and delete the family table
Now open each instance that you already loaded into memory and save it.

This will save each instance of your family table as a seperate file.