Part Families 2

[RKulchy]

I am creating an assembly part family of some components. I have 2 components that are a part of my family that are a left and right side. The part numbers of the components are in the format of 123456-L and 123456-R for the left and right side. When I create the part family and look to add the components I am only seeing a line for a component of 123456. This will only create one column in the part family table for both parts even though they are different. Is there a way I can get the available columns in the part families to show both parts? I cannot change the part numbers of the components since they are company standard part numbers.

Thanks,
Randy

 

[SamSlivinski]

I am a bit confused by your post. If the components are named diffirently there should be no reason why only one or the other shows and the other one does not. Which component is showing?

 

[RKulchy]

I figured out where I went wrong on this. What the issue is I am created a symmetric assembly and now want to create an asymmetric assembly. If the parent part is the symmetric version, only one compnent shows up as an available componet to add to the part family. If I update the parent to be the asymmetric version, both components show up. I thought there was a way in the part family editor to separate out the columns to be able to distinguish between left and right or top and bottom and keep going, but the parts actually need to be in the file. Oversight on my part.

 

[MickyV007]

Yes you can, if you insert your two parts in the assembly rename one in the add component dialog to part1 and the other to part2. You can do this in the settings field Name...
Now if you create the family table and choose component you will see part1 and part2, otherwise if you don't change the names, there will only be 123456 and you have one column.

Best regards,

Michaël.

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