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pausob19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
February 27, 2021
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External sketches used in extrude features - can they be varied in Family Tables?

  • February 27, 2021
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Hi all,

 

For extrude and revolve features that have sections defined as an external sketch, then one is able to "swap out" their sections by specifying a different external sketch.  Super easy to do via "edit references" of the feature:

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However, I can't base a family table or make a flexible component instance based on varying what external sketch a feature uses.  Am I missing something?

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Chris3
Chris321-Topaz I
21-Topaz I
March 1, 2021

I don't know of a way to do exactly what you are trying to do but you could create two extrude features and suppress / unsuppress them with the family table.

 

You can also vary the sketch dimensions with the family table so if it is possible to edit a number of dimensions to get to the second sketch then you could modify those dimensions in the family table.

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pausob19-TanzaniteAuthor
19-Tanzanite
March 1, 2021

Thanks.  I am aware you can build separate extrude features and suppress all-but-one in a particular FT instance.  But that means there is a separate external sketch used in each feature in the generic.  So I might as well have done those extrudes using "internal sketches".

I know the curves of external sketch can be reused as references in multiple downstream features - it seems that's the only advantage of using external sketches.

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