Hi everyone,
Let me explain, we are a company working with aluminum profiles.
In order to optimize our studies, I am looking for a method to create a enclosure door and be able to control the dimensions according to our customer's needs.
The dimensions vary greatly from one project to another.
If I change the dimensions, the doors registered in the other customer designs must not change as well.
I have to have the door that remains independent for each project.
Do you have any solutions?
Several choices are open to you:
The simplest way, make a "save as" of your new door. It therefore becomes specific to your project and no risk of modifying the doors of other projects. You then just have to modify the dimensions that interest you
Hold family tables. It's very good if you have recurring doors that come back (same dimensions)
A choice could be and very practical for you:
Make a basic gate and save it as a template
That way when you open solidworks and new, you will have a tab with your base door that you should in any case save under another name
Is this a process that we use or work to save time:)
Hello
You can use the part families to create a new configuration, but if you want independent files, you just have to register under each new part with configured equations, which allow you to modify a model very quickly.
The families of parts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGZTv99R4hE
My "save as" macro with SolidWorks:
http://www.lynkoa.com/tutos/3d/macro-enregistrer-sous-avec-solidworks
The equations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfILj-dhEMM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2BsbwA3ofs
The above answers are very relevant
or you can also go through Driveworks
you make a model and then via this model you can model the modifications by making new modifications to it
See the tutorials drive workśin tutorial tab
Have a nice day
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It's an assembly, I have my profiles, my corners and the polycarbonate.
When I save
as in the client's file, the source file changes too, so it's a mess in the other files...
Hello
You can also:
1-create a blank part family with just the desired variables and use the Publisher configuration (right click in the configurations)
or
2- Create a small DriveWorks X'press database (allows you to copy all the parts directly under record and generate drawings automatically)
or
3- The @Centor solution with the template
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Check the small box "save copy as" in this case. It's under the name of your blend, next to "references"... Then either you replace the old door with your new door if it was already in the assembly. Or you insert your new door.
This option allows you to save without affecting parts that have already been imported. On the other hand, you have to go and look for it in your files
Why not make a configural holder with the desired dimensions according to your customers?
When you save as, you must not have the main assembly of the client project 1 open otherwise, SW will point to the new location and therefore your new door. You just need to have the door assembly.
On the other hand, don't forget to change the name of this client assembly 2, because it's going to be a mess if you open 2 projects at the same time. And sw will choose the last open file.
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This is to avoid all these problems of saving as, copy not copy,..... that I recommend the use of DriveWorks X'press which naturally saves the files under a new name while working as a new project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxeWM7pnJSg
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Isn't your solution paying@Coyote?
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@coin37coin DriveWorks xpress is free and available in all versions of solidworks.
See attached image.
It is possible to upgrade to DriveWorks solo to be able to create even more rules and a more "sexy" input interface or to DriveWorks Pro which allows you to create configured products on client workstations or even on the web.
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PS: No, I don't work or have shares at DriveWorks. ;)
A solution that has not been mentioned: make a take-home composition which allows you to rename all the files of the assembly at once (or only a few) and to recover the drawings.