Parameters Stored Only at Assembly Level?

[byork]

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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[TomU]

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?

[StephenW]

Isn't that a component parameter in assemblies?

[TomU]

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.

[byork]

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.

[GabrielZaha]

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.

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

[TomU]

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.

[byork]

I had thought about flexible components as well, but I can't add the parameter to the parts. That is revise the part to add the new parameter.