Can I use a design table in a part to...

Can I use a design table in a part to hide and unhide bodies in various
configurations and if so what should the colum header be for such a switch?

Ben

 

I should explain some more maybe there is another solution to my problem

I have a weldment part and want individual drawings of each member used with
detail of the ends. I do not want to make this into an assembly via the
split parts - save as assembly as the time it takes for updating sucks and
sometimes the updating does not work well or at all. I can suppress say
structural member 1 but then I suppress all of the members in it and would
like to only suppress or hide one part of it...

I thought I did this in 2004, I made several configurations and hid the
elements I did not want to see and it worked then... Maybe this is a bug I
need to bring up to SW?

Ben

 

$SHOW@component<instance> is used in assemblies to hide and show
components...
I could not find anything that specifically for hiding/showing bodies in
parts...try the $SHOW column header and see if it works.

 

Use the split command and skip making the assembly just make a file for each
body. These models will update when the weldment is changed but you can
insert the weldment part into other assemblies and it will not need to
update because it is the parent part, and the child parts won't need to be
opened or updated except for their detail drawings.

Corey

 

If you are only talking about angles on tubing or extrusion, you can
modify the cut list to include those angles. So the shop will know
what tubing, Length and what angles to cut for each line item in the
cutlist. If the cuts are more complex than that you can right click
each body in the cutlist of the part and click save as part and it
will save each cutlist item, one at a time, parametrically in a
separate file. You can then create separate drawings for each one. I
usually use the cutlist angles when I can (most of the time) and on a
complex weldment part I create a new part and either create a separate
drawing or include it as a detailed view in the main weldment drawing.
Hope this is helpful
Mike