Family table parts in family table assembly

[tummen]

I am trying to make an assembly in wf3 with parts that are themselves family table structured.

An example: I have washers M2 M3 M4 M5 and so on, i also have bolts M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 and so on. i now want to make an assembly that has its own family tree. I would like to be able to pic a whole boltkit ant directly have the right parts chosen for this from the family tree.

I have searched for an answer to this and im not sure that it has not been answerd before, the closest i could find to an answer was too hard to understand.

 

[looslib]

You have to add all of the instances from the washer file and bolt file into your assembly file. In your assembly file, create all of the pairings as components in the assembly family table.



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[tummen]

But this solution is not any good if you plan on making many different rows in the, family table and it makes it hard to replace the instance later since the referenses in the assembly has to be redone, any other tips maybe?

 

[dgallup]

You just put the generic parts in the generic assembly. Then in the generic assembly family table you add columns for each component you want to change. Then you build rows for each instance of the assembly and fill in the table. Note that you can click in a table cell and then pick tools/replace using/family member and it will open a window with all the instances of that component.

If you used assembly constraints (primary datum planes and axes) that exist in all instances Pro/E will have no problem constructing all the assembly instances. Use the Verify tool to ensure they all work.

 

[tummen]

This sounds very interesting but i have tried to get the part into the family table, i even found an explenation in the online help but... i cant find the menuoptions they refer to :-( exactly how do i add a part in the family tree? i can only add them so i can switch them on or of as it is now.

 

[JohnAndrews]

In the assembly family table, add a component column for each family table part. Create new assembly instance rows, and in the cell for the family table part type in the name of the part instance (unfortunately the pull down option only shows Y or N, not the instance names).

For example:

Family Table: TEST
Instance Name Bolt Washer
TEST BOLT WASHER
TEST_1 M3_BOLT M3_WASHER
TEST_2 M6_BOLT M6_WASHER
TEST_3 M10_BOLT M10_WASHER

Where BOLT is the generic bolt and has instances M3_BOLT, M6_BOLT etc.

Hope this works for you.....

 

[tummen]

Thaaanks! so i had it under my nose right from the start then... Now it works perfect!