I'm doing some simulation work where I want to investigate alternate dimensions AND toggle between different versions of a forging/casting in the simulation. See attached picture.
FORGING.PRT has a family table with a couple of instances.
MACHINING.PRT includes a merge of FORGING.PRT. It also has a family table. The family table includes different instances of FORGING.PRT. All of MACHINING.PRT's instances work fine, including picking the correct FORGING.PRT geometry.
I created SIMULATION.PRT part as an inheritance of MACHINING.PRT. It has varied items of MACHINING.PRT to be able to de-feature and change dimensions. I'm struggling with how to use different instances of FORGING.PRT from SIMULATION.PRT.
Initial thought is to create a SIMULATION.PRT parameter named &FORGING_TYPE, then write a relation IF &FORGING_TYPE == 1 THEN xxx. Goal is to bet able to enter &FORGING_TYPE 1 in SIMULATION.PRT, regenerate it, and it uses instance FORGING-1 in the geometry; enter &FORGING_TYPE 2 in SIMULATION.PRT, regenerate it, and it uses instance FORGING-2 in the geometry, etc.
Hopefully this is possible since MACHINING.PRT family table is already able to use different instances of the FORGING.PRT geometry. But I don't want to use specific instances of MACHINING.PRT in SIMULATION.PRT - that defeats the purpose of having varied items.
As an alternative, I'd be happy enough to be able vary FORGING.PRT dimension &d3 from SIMULATION.PRT. I'm not sure that's possible with this part structure, though.
