Design Table Problem 2

>Is there any way to use the same Design Table in two Parts??

1) Have option checked to Edit DT in separate window on.
2) When you open the DT from one part Excel will open the DT.
3) There you should do a Save as for the DT.
4) Close that part and open the other part
5) Once opened, go to "insert design table" and find the DT you just saved.
6) You will have to go thru the DT and redo the dimensions.

>I want to do a Pneumatic Cylinder, and i want to test
>movement, so I have drawn a Piston rod. How can I change
>the stroke of the Piston rod and the Cylinder whith the
>same Design table?

Can you not assembly it, using distance mates then use a DT to control those mates to check the stroke of the assembly? This is the first way I would approach this. If you need to change something you can edit the parts right there in the assembly.

Assembly DT cannot control part dimensions, it can control part configs though.

Hope that helps, Scott Baugh, CSWP
George Koch Sons,LLC
Evansville, IN 47714
sjb@kochllc.com

Hi Sbaugh,

I'm needing something like that. I have an assembly and I hate to create some congigurations changind the dimensions of his parts. But I need to drive all of them from the same DT. I'd try to do what you said but I think I'm missing anything... When I active the option Edit DT in a Separate Window I don't have the save option, I just have the Save as copy... If I use this option, the DT's don't stay linked... What did a miss?

Thanks,
Rodrigo Basniak
Curitiba, PR
Brazil

No I think your doing it correctly. You cannot have one DT control two parts. You can save the 1st DT and insert into the 2 part, but they are not linked.

You talk like configurations are a bad thing? Using a configuration is probably the better away of controlling your assembly. Assembly DT should not and will not control part dimensions. That's why configurations are available. The user changes the dimensions of the part in the DT which in-turn is relevant only to that config's name.

EX:
config name dimension name
D1@sketch1
config 1 5
config 2 10
config 3 15

Then while in your Assembly DT you can pick an choose which config works the best.

EX:
Assembly name config name
config@part<1>
assembly A config 3
assembly B config 1
assembly C config 2

This is how SW links it's dimensions to their parts, and their parts to their assemblies etc...

Well I hope this helps,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
George Koch Sons,LLC
Evansville, IN 47714
sjb@kochllc.com

Hello RBasniak,
There is an excel spreadsheet out on SolidWorks website that does exactly what you are trying to do. Go out Subscription Support, Model Library, API, Modeling Utilities, and the file is called Excel To SolidWorks Link Template.
I have used it in the past and it works pretty slick. There is a help tab that walks you through using the spreadsheet. If you do not have subscription support, you will not be able to download it. If I knew how to attach the file to this, if it is even possible, I would. If you can't download it I would be willing to email it to you.

Let me know what you think.
BBJT CSWP

Hello BBJT,

If you could send me it I would be so grateful... Please send it to mulderpg@uol.com.br

Thank you so much,
Rodrigo Basniak

It's on its way.

Let me know what you think. BBJT CSWP

I just don't have words to explain my surprise when I used that spreadsheet, it's just terrific!!! Well, I thinik I have to spend some time to learn how to make macros LOL
I don't know how to thank you BBJT, it will be really useful!

Rodrigo Basniak