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udf under powecopy

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kicosh

Automotive
Mar 22, 2012
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hello all, need some help here.

So i need to make small assembly powercopy under ship structure module to be able to use it in ship model. My small assembly is simple triangle bracket. Only accessible parameters should be A,B,C and R. I took some catia file that comes with built in catalog as an example and tried to use same logic. Original catia file is "C:\Program Files\Dassault Systemes\B21\win_b64\startup\EquipmentAndSystems\Structure\DetailingFeatures\SDD_Bracket_BL_Type4.CATPart". My bracket is in attachment.

Now, what i would like is to have powercopy of plate FSuperPi feature, but geometry definiton of plate should come from udf that is built from "Definition" geometrical set whose output is Support. I managed to create this UDF with A,B,C,R published parameters and as you can see in my part, if you change parameters under UDF definition geometry changes too. But the problem is when creating plate feature, and need to select support i click on UDF itself. Plate creates normally but there is no UDF under powercopy to be able to change parameters, as it is case on original catia file (see picture attached). Also, thing is that inputs of powercopy when creating it from UDF is UDF itself and not the inputs of UDF as it is on original file. Can someone help with this, please? Thank you in advance.

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Nevermind, it seems i solved it.

For who wants to know... After creating UDF containing geometry of bracket it has te be instantiated somewhere. I did it within the same document. After its been instantiated then it can be copied and pasted under previously created plate. Then under plate definition simply click pasted UDF. Last step is simply, to create powercopy, which then, can be placed into catalog.

 
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