Last week I was building out a data set with our resident Curtain Wall expert Brian Frank and I wanted to put in every detail I possibly could with this curtain panel assembly, including the ability to extract the length of each part. But there was a catch here – the length wasn’t the length of an extrusion or something I could dimension in the normal sort of dimensioning. No big deal, right?
Now the reason for this technique is that I need to use a “From, To” extrusion when using the new iCopy tool on labs http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/inventor_icopy/ . So in order for me to create a cut list and extract length for each part I need to create a driven dimension and reference that dimension in a customized part list in a drawing file.
So just like that two minutes turned into four, my how time flies when I’m rambling… [grin]
-Rob
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