Breakout of Family Table Instances to Standalone Models
One interesting need that comes up for multiple reasons is the need to break out Family Table Instances into standalone Models.
There are many reasons for why you want to do this - sometimes it is to avoid Family Tables being shared with vendors/customers (basically a catalog of what you make/buy/use), other times is to avoid complex relationships and dependencies (I don’t need 4,000 bolts available tagging along with an assembly when only 5 are in it). There are many other reasons why customers want to break these out - but the biggest one is sharing without sharing too much - standalone models are just easier to deal with for user, PDM, and PLM in the end. But Family Tables have a purpose for sure - they are great for managing the library masters; exporting the individual models is often a need for more accountability and streamlined version control.
So we created an Excel Workbook that uses Nitro-CELL break out Family Table Instances into standalone models - saving them to a sub-directory (without damaging your original model). Pretty Cool… right?
This, and other Excel Workbook / Creo Parametric Automations are located here:
https://github.com/SimplifiedLogic/Nitro-CELL-FREE_AUTOMATIONS
Simple Steps to Get Automating.
- Creo Parametric w/ JLINK Installed
- Download, Extract, Run Nitro-CELL
- Get your FREE License (or use your Purchased License)
- Point Nitro-CELL to your Creo Installation
- Optional Download Nitro-CELL Excel Add-in (if you want tooltips in Excel)
- Download the Automation Workbook(s)
- Point Nitro-CELL to your Automation Workbook
- Press “Do It!”
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If you have any questions - please let me know.
What other common automation pain do you think we should create?
Dave