Hi everybody,'m new in SOlidworks ,i come from other softwares, and i changed work .
My new company is making the change from 2d to 3d and we have got SOlidworks 2016 Sp3 professional and PDM 2016.
They are asking me that want manage the gaket and tubes in such way. They want an unique code to indietify a kind of gasket or a kind of tube( and all parts that you buy in meters and Mount them in meteres) and they want to design them on our machines and get in the bom( draft) the meters mounted of those, and they dont want make a own draft for everytime you must mount such gasket or tube.
So when i assign with PDM a code to the gasket i cant modify it anymore, otherwise i will modify the dimensions of all gaskets mounted on our different machines.
Before i worked in different way ,i created a neutral code from Teamcenter and with such code i designed my gasket and inside the neutral code's propreties , it brought the info about the real code that idientified the kind of the gasket or tube , and i made also the draft of it.
For now i tried to do so, i created a code of my gasket with PDM and i extruded it for 50mm and i mount this part of the gasket in our machines , so in such way got the code of my gasket in the BOM of my assembly , then i realized a new part and i mount it as envelopes part and i realize the extrusion of the gasket for measure it and write manually in the bom the meters of the extrusion.
I use envelopes parts because i dont want this code that i use just to show the gasket and for measure it in our bom and then in our CVS file , becaure our Management Software doenst support a different cvs file ,
Is it right? Is there any other way to manage this kind of parts?
I hope to be enough clear .
Thanks in advance everybody will help me or will advise me.
Have a nice time.
Hello Luca, I don't think I understand your request. Are you trying to create a gasket that is a specific length then add that to the BOM of an assembly. Then, change the length as needed for a different assembly and have it show up on that BOM?
It sounds like you need to create the general shape in a part and then add configurations to the part for the different lengths. You can then have a BOM specific part number specified in the configuration properties.