User:obourne

Assembly features are quite useful however there are potential drawbacks. Adding assembly features can dramatically reduce assembly performance. Every time there is a change in the assembly the Assy-features will update. Depending on the number of features this update can takes several (read 4-5 in my case) minutes to update. That means: add a single contraint - update, move a part - update, unsurpress a component - update....you get the idea. Using the EOP roll back is helpful but not a full solution. That's because the EOP roll-back effectively supresses the assy-features which causes and constraints made applied to those features to fail. Dismissing constraint failure dialog boxes gets pretty old rather fast. I would suggest to ADSK to add a new option to assy-features that allows updates to be suppressed but the feature to stay active. Perhaps you could point to the assy-feature>RMC>properies and chooses "suppress-updates" and then see a lightning bolt or something. That would be similar to suppressing updatr in wire harnesses which works rather well.

Oh I see. I think. It seems that we can activate the "structured" option from the parts list in a drawing and don't need to go to the assembly BOM to activate it.

Amazing! I, literally, was just wishing for this today. I think it's time to upgrade to 2013.

Hopefully this will be extended to show iproperties as well.

Great. This will go a long way towards making FG more usable for complex frames.

Great. This will go a long way towards making FG more usable for complex frames.

I like it a lot. This will be very good for parts with many features.

I'm glad to see improvements with 3D (and 2D) skecthes. Using CVs should be much easier than points.

I love it when an Inventor wish finally comes true. This will be very useful.

Excellent!