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byork17-Peridot
17-Peridot
July 21, 2015
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Parameters Stored Only at Assembly Level?

  • July 21, 2015
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I am trying to figure out if there is a way to store a value/parameter for component/sub-assembly at a top assembly that will not need to be stored in the part or sub-assembly?  Feature name works close to what I want but I don't want to use feature name because we use that for other things.  Also I can't have to components with the same feature name.

 

Any help would be very much appreciated and thanks in advance!


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TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
July 21, 2015

How would the component/sub-assembly use this parameter?  What about when the component/sub-assembly is opened without the upper level assembly in session?

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23-Emerald III
StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
July 21, 2015

Isn't that a component parameter in assemblies?

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23-Emerald IV
TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
July 21, 2015

I thought about that too, but I think the component value for sub-assembly components would be stored at the sub-assembly level, not at the top assembly level.

I wonder if notebook functionality (previously called layout) with "declare" would be useful.  Of course then you're actually modifying all the lower level components/sub-assemblies.

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byork17-PeridotAuthor
17-Peridot
July 21, 2015

I tried the component parameter and it does require storing the parameter in the sub-assembly. So it would work great at the assembly level just can't go into the sub-assemblies.

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GabrielZaha14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
July 21, 2015

If I understood the problem correctly that you may want to take a look at flexible components. This way you can have a parameter value in the assembly context and a different value when the part is opened by itself.

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The parameter need to exist in the part but it's value is independent from the assembly.

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23-Emerald IV
TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
July 21, 2015

Keep in mind that as the number of flexible components goes up, Creo performance goes down.  A hidden family table gets created for each item that has flexibility defined.

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