This is really getting frustrating. I'm trying to get the company I work for to switch to SW, which I'm a novice at, but even I am growing weary.
My current challenge is to make a set of organ pipes that will be created with only a couple value changes...diameter(scale) and height.
1. When clicking through the different configurations, things just are inconsistent. Sometimes the model will change, sometimes it won't, sometimes it gets bigger when the equation shows it getting smaller.
2. When I put a set of the "flue pipes" in an assembly (there are 61 total pipes in a set) and changed the configuration for each pipe, somehow once I had it laid out nicely. Then when I changed my "master diameter"(Scale@PipeSizingSketch) the assembly went haywire. All of the pipes changed to that one diameter instead of following the equation instructions.
Any suggestions? Am I going about this totally wrong?
This is the final product: (Here is about 6 or 7 sets of these pipes, each set with 61 pipes)
Jason,
I am not 100% sure exactly what you are trying to accomplish. But, I think what you are trying to do here may be better handled with a design table (Spreadsheet inside of solidworks).
I'm not saying you can't make it work, but there are easier solutions.
What I base this upon is that all of the Solidworks Toolbox components supplied by Dassault follow the design table method.
I have attached a simple washer that has a design table. I don't have any equations in the design table because the dimensions of washers really aren't based on equations, as far as I can tell. But, you can put equations in the design table like any other spreadsheet.