Just ran into a problem. Trying to use equations toparametrically drive a number of fins on a design. A master fin ispatterned. The idea was to drive the fin count and spacing withformulas and then use various configurations to play with differentoptions.
It's a simple matter to connect the pattern count to an equation.
It's also simple to then use this count and the available length tofigure out the resulting fin spacing.
The problem is that you can't change these as you addconfigurations to the part. All you can do is suppress orun-suppress equations.
So...you would have to have ten different "fin count" equations,each one activated by the corresponding configuration.
OK, so, maybe you can deal with this...a bit of a pain, but maybenot so bad.
The problem comes in when you decide to add a couple of new configsafter you've set all of this up. What happens is that equations areevaluated in the order they were entered, so a "fin count" equationthat comes after the "fin spacing" calculation equation is not seenby the calc. When you suppress all prior "fin count" equations andenable the new one, all prior calculations based on the new "fincount" equation fail.
What's needed is a way to be able to move equations up and down inthe list.
Or, better yet, to be able to create equations that have theability to have different values assigned on aconfiguration-by-configuration basis.
Any ideas?
-Martin
SolidworksParts And Features
It's a simple matter to connect the pattern count to an equation.
It's also simple to then use this count and the available length tofigure out the resulting fin spacing.
The problem is that you can't change these as you addconfigurations to the part. All you can do is suppress orun-suppress equations.
So...you would have to have ten different "fin count" equations,each one activated by the corresponding configuration.
OK, so, maybe you can deal with this...a bit of a pain, but maybenot so bad.
The problem comes in when you decide to add a couple of new configsafter you've set all of this up. What happens is that equations areevaluated in the order they were entered, so a "fin count" equationthat comes after the "fin spacing" calculation equation is not seenby the calc. When you suppress all prior "fin count" equations andenable the new one, all prior calculations based on the new "fincount" equation fail.
What's needed is a way to be able to move equations up and down inthe list.
Or, better yet, to be able to create equations that have theability to have different values assigned on aconfiguration-by-configuration basis.
Any ideas?
-Martin
SolidworksParts And Features
