Sorry to chime in so late but has anyone tried using flexible components instead of a family table? We had a customer who didn’t like family tables, so we had to come up with a method of showing a cable flat in a drawing and formed in the model so we did the following: (since our customer didn’t have RSD, we couldn’t use that either)
1 Add the flat feature to your flexibility matrix.
2 Create a snapshot in the model of your flat state.
3 Suppress the flat feature from your model.
4 In the drawing view call up the snapshot flat state which works like a simplified rep.
We didn’t have any sheet metal flat patterns to do but I think it would work the same way. I’ve always used family tables but I thought I’d throw this out since it was a bit different. Maybe some of you smarter folks can shed some light on whether it’s better or worse than family tables. If you need me to go into more details just let me know. By the way I was using WF4.
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-hsaldana
Ascendant Engineering Solutions
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