Solid Edge Working with Multi-body part as an adjustable part

2021-10-06T23:55:27Z
PART/SHEETMETAL

Summary


Details

Driving a multi-body Part - that is defined as adjustable - in an assembly via 
variables.


In this scenario the user creates a part with two bodies and at the same time 
defines Suppression variables for each Body. Then they define the suppress 
variables as being driven from within an assembly. 
 
In the assembly environment they then add the Part as being adjustable. 
In the window that appears they define the assembly variables 'a' and 'b' 
as scalar and substitute 'a' with the value of the Suppression variable for 
Body 1 and 'b' for Body 2 respectively.


Now they expect to be able to suppress either Body 1 or Body 2 with the help of 
the variables 'a' and 'b'. However this works only for one Body.



Solution

The reason is that only the Body that is marked in the Part as the Active 
Assembly Body can be driven in the assembly via the variables, the other Body 
cannot be driven as there can only be one Active Assembly Body in a Multi-body 
part. If you need to drive the other Body from the assembly you will have to 
define that one in the part as the Active Assembly Body.



Notes and References


Hardware/Software Configuration

Platform: INTL64
OS: window
OS Version: n/a
Product: SOLID_EDGE
Application: PART/SHEETMETAL
Function: MULTI_BODY

Ref: 002-7009299

KB Article ID# PL7009299

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Associated Components

PART/SHEETMETAL: FLAT_PATTERN