Is This Explaination Clear Enough?

Is there a way to link properties to extruded text?

I have a complicated part with lots of configurations, some of which are
sheetmetal--or pseudo sheet metal. They are aluminum parts and will be
laser cut. The different configurations are extremely similar in
appearance, about 8" long with variations from part to part as little as
..010. In order to tell the parts apart after they've been cut out, I
need to mark them with the laser; but a laser won't etch aluminum, so I
have to cut identification numbers into a sacrificial tab.

I don't know how to link the configuration name to extruded text, but
since I had a complicated design table anyway, I used the Excel file to
convert the configuration name to binary, then included 5 "bit" cutouts
which are suppressed or unsuppressed by the design table, so that each
flat pattern configuration has its part number represented by notches
cut into a tab on the end.

It was a fun exercise for learning Excel.

Of course, if I were doing it all over again, I wouldn't put 20
different parts, plus all of the tooling to make all the different
parts, plus assembly tooling into a single part file.


--
J Kimmel

www.metalinnovations.com

"Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum." - When you have
their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow.

 

In short; You cannot alter the characters, text or numbers of a text
feature using a design table.

What you may end up doing is to place X number of feature on the model
and then control their suppression state in the design table.

So basically you're making a large design table larger.

 

Boy you just turned on some lights. If you can't change the text string
in a text feature by design table or even by configuration there is
something major missing.