non-configurable items

Does anyone have a good list, or would you like to contribute to a good
list of items that are not configurable?

List of things I have so far:

- offset for From value in an extrude
- hide/show state of body
- thread callouts
- hole wiz holes

 

Hi Matt

Hole Wiz holes are configurable - only the name of the feature isn't

Just did a quick test
www.solidengineering.co.nz/swhelp/configtestholewiz.zip


John Layne
www.solidengineering.co.nz

 

ah, that's not fair. You configured the dimensions. The Hole Wiz feature
itself is still not configurable. You can't change an M6 to an M4,
unless I'm missing something.

Nice workaround, though.



On the other hand, Library Features can have configurations and carry
the configs with them, although I don't think the config of the lib
feature is configurable with different part configs (does that make any
confriggin sense?). THAT looks like a huge missed opportunity!

 

Matt

That part I just made: If you drop it into a drawing and dimension the
cosmetic thread and then change configs, the M6 will change to M4. It's only
the feature name in the feature tree of the part that doesn't change.

John Layne
www.solidengineering.co.nz

 

Hence if you did want to configure a Hole Wiz hole it would probably pay to
rename the feature to something more discriptive.

John Layne
www.solidengineering.co.nz

 

Ok, that's cool. It's still not as direct as changing it in the HW
interface, but its a useful workaround.

 

Smart Parts use configs.

yeah, good

damn, you're right, I thought they were

nope, doesn't show.

Why not?

If I had to vote for 1 it would be to make Hole Wizard configurable and
to allow part configs to call out a library feature config. Ok, that's
2. I'm not so good at following directions.

 

Another level to this question that I didn't think of initially is which
items can be configured but cannot be driven by a design table?

- So far the sketch plane doesn't look to have a way to be driven
- suppressed sketch relations and dimensions
- there have to be more... Beuler?

 

woops, sketch relations can be driven by a DT:


$state@sketch_relation@sketch_name

 

I have an SPR number for the sketch block problem:
236363 Sketch blocks don't work with configurations