External sketches used in extrude features - can they be varied in Family Tables?

[pausob]

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:

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?

[Chris3]

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.

[pausob]

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.