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CFCharlie Fan15/12/2014

Hi Everyone,

It is nice to have equation being able to refer to value from other part, for example, we can use "DimName@SketchName@PartName.part" to link the value from another part within the same assembly.

However, as we know, in a large assembly, there can be sub-assemblies, sub-assembly can also have further sub-assemblies... Is there a way to restrain the equation to refer to dimension within a sub-assembly?

For example, I made a smart assembly of a window frame, when the window is of different size, the window frame will change its shape and number of bars in it. When I try to drag and drop this smart assembly into a house, when I try to put each of the assembly on to the wall, I want these assemblies to suit different windows so each of them will be different. However, when I actually tried this, those equations force all the window frame assemblies to be the same. I figured out that it is because those assembly part files have same name, and those equations link them together, which is something I don't want. It could be fixed if we limit that the equation only take effect within the sub-assembly.

Is there a way to do this? Thank you all.