Control arrangements at top or higher level

[nxprog]

I am designing one tool, that will make several different parts. There will be one die set (or die base), and 16 different variations of tooling inside that one tool. I need/want to control arrangements at the top or higher level. for instance...see below. I design the parts in FEATURE01 with say 16 different arrangements. Lets say I name the arrangement's A1, A2, A3...etc. I then do the same for FEATURE02 with 16 arrangements. So now I have two subassemblys with 16 or more arrangements. This part was easy enough. But now I want to control these arrangements in these subassemblies at a higher level (station01). I want to be able to call up an arrangement at the station01 level, that will call up certain arrangement's in its sub-assemblies (FEATURE01 FEATURE02). I then want to do the same at the masterpart level. The way I am designing this tool is at the FEATURE level first, I then create my arrangements as I go. So do I then have to re-create ALL the arrangements at the higher level in order to get the action I want? I am new to arrangements, so any help will be greatly appreciated.


Masterpart

Station01

FEATURE01

PART1
PART2...etc​

FEATURE02

PART6
PART7...etc​

PART12
PART13...ETC​

Station02

FEATURE4

PART9
PART10​

FEATURE5

PART11
PART15
PART16...ETC​

NX 6.05.3/7.5.5/8.0

 

[moog2]

it sounds like you'll always have more arrangements at your upper levels, to control all the itterations in the sub assemblies.
You can suppress parts in arrangements, and you can have different positions of parts in sub-assemblies (by moving them "apply to used")
and you can have constraints specific to arrangements (you probably already know all this)
you'll certainly be able to do what you want, working from bottom up sounds like the way to go.
As you move up a level, check (& set-up) each arrangement then save. Naming the arrangements in an organised way, will help to not getting in a mess later on

 

[nxprog]

Thanks for the input...
What I have done to simplify matters, I have eliminated one set of sub-assemblies. I got rid of the "FEATURE" sub-assemblies and just dumped all the parts in the next level up, then used arrangements to control the parts and postions. I still want to do what I described, but minus one level. I have started by naming all the arrangement's the same. I'll try what I want when I get to the drafting stage of this project.

NX 6.05.3/7.5.5/8.0