How many configurations are too many in an assembly that will be
inserted multiple times into many different assemblies?
I have a small common assembly of 4 parts that I use all the time. 2
of the 4 are common parts that don't change in this assembly but the
other 2 are sized together and each have the same configs referenced
in the assembly to change between nearly 100 different sizes. Besides
the different sizes, one of the components can be at 1 of 4 different
angles. Plus there are 3 different finishes for this assembly that
doesn't affect the model really but does affect the BOM.
So we have 100 sizes X 4 angles X 3 finishes. Is 1200 configs too many
for one file?
It would be nice to include them all in one file because we can. It's
a small assembly so I'm really not concerned about performance but
rather finding the configuration that the user is looking for. The
Component Properties window only displays 8 configs in the
Configuration list box. That's a lot of scrolling to find the desired
config name in a list of 1200. Any suggestions?
We are up to date using SW2007 on XP workstations. Thanks for any
help.
dp
- posted
15 years ago