part family

[kimrivers]

Part family question..Making a part family of a shaft. There are about a dozen members..there are 2 Groove features that are in two of the members. So for the other ten I say no in the column for that Feature. the diameter of the grooves are different in each of the other two grooves so there is a column for groove1 dia and groove2 dia.; putting a zero in results in a warning
"object rectangular groove in member xyz produced an update warning" This warning has been accepted and update will continue,
update error RECTANGULAR_Groove (22)
in part xyz
INVALID rectangular Groove diameter"
it does update but throws a string of error messages for 36 grooves..
Leaving blank does also..so what is the correct entry for that column?

thank you

 

[JohnRBaker]

Even if the feature is suppressed, it has to have valid parameters, so just put some numbers in there that WOULD HAVE worked IF the groove had actually been there.

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[kimrivers]

thank you!!!