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acoates1-Visitor
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February 17, 2015
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  • February 17, 2015
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Hi.

Is it true that when you assign a material from the material library (a nice, centralized location from which to control you business's material requirements) they decouple and remain local to the part (decentralized, uncontrolled etc. etc.)? If so, how can I retain the link please?

Many thanks,

Andy


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Best answer by dschenken

There is no parametric link between the model and the file the information was copied from.

If you need this you will have to create your own software to update the values.

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Manikandan1-Visitor
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February 18, 2015

Andy,

I understand your situation, Let consider this I got a part from parts library ( Bolt , nut, etc... ) and I have to change some dimensions if I change the dimensions it shouldn't reflect to my parts library. Like this once you assigned material for a part ,the link between part and the material library will get disconnected.

I hope you got my point.

....

Mani

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acoates1-VisitorAuthor
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February 18, 2015

Hi Mani,

Thanks for that: I understand. In that situation I would modify the relevant property (dimension, Young's modulus, description etc) and save the modification as a new library component that I could then reuse elsewhere. Breaking the link makes no sense to me at all, I'm afraid. I'm hoping that somebody out there has created a workaround!

Andy

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acoates1-VisitorAuthor
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March 11, 2015

Quick nudge: does anybody have a method by which the link to the central material file can be maintained please?

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dschenken1-VisitorAnswer
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March 11, 2015

There is no parametric link between the model and the file the information was copied from.

If you need this you will have to create your own software to update the values.

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acoates1-VisitorAuthor
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March 12, 2015

*Sigh*

Thanks for the confirmation, David. Yet another thing to keep me evaluating different software.

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