Hi
It's my first project working with the property tab builder and I'm unsure the best way to describe my model. I wondered what is best practice is for situations like this.
A simple example of a door frame, I have a property HINGED
Ideally I would like this to have choice of the following
- Unknown
- None
- Left
- Right
- Both
So in property tab builder I could use a list, I could use this property directly in my drawing but I would have to use Excels capabilities in a DT to get it to drive my model.
Alternately I could use numeric codes and/or Boolean
For example
- -1 Left
- 0 None/Unknown
- 1 Right
- 2 Both
I could then use this property to directly drive my model via equations but I would need to add another equation in my BOM.
I feel this would also invite 'human' error to come calling. Radio buttons do a reasonable job of eliminating this, but they are limited to 3 choices
What would be great is if I could have the best of both worlds. A single control in the property tab builder that created two properties; HINGED_DESCRIPTION and HINGED_CODE
Is there a way to do that? or must I use a DT
I don't think there is a simple way of combing multiple properties edit fields into one property (short of some macro) but to get more than three options, just change the quantity field to how many options you want.