Equations in structural members / weldments
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:10 pm    Post subject: Equations in structural members / weldments Reply with quote

I'm using weldments (in SW 2004) for the first time, and I've seemingly
found a limitation and was wondering if there's a workaround.

I'm creating weldment profiles to use as structural members, and the process
I'm using is:-
- new part
- sketch the profile and constrain it
- add some equations to better capture the design intent
- save the part in the profiles folder as a "library feature" (I think
that's the term it uses)
So far, it all works fine.
- create new part that will have the weldment
- sketch the "ladders" of the weldment
- add structural members
At this point, when I do a rebuild it says the equations are not valid, even
though the dimensions exist. If I delete the equations that were brought in
automatically with the profiles, and then recreate them, it gives the same
errors.

Does this mean that equations are not permitted within structural members?
Why does it let me save them in the library feature if they are of no use
later?

Has this been fixed in SW2006, which we will be upgrading to shortly?

Regards,
John Harland

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