Dialog: Function-Block: Design-Set

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Dialog: Function-Block: Design-Set

Design-Set FB

See Add Design-Set


Use Design-Sets to edit a number of dimensions and parameters in one place - with the Design-Set dialog.

Add to a Design-Set those dimensions and parameters that you believe to be important to the outcome of a design-objective.

You can add more than one Design-Set.


Question:

Why use a Design-Set?

Answers: Three good reasons:

A.Frequently, you edit many times the same dimensions and parameters to improve a design objective. You can add to, and edit them directly with, a Design-Set.

B.If you need to open the model after a period of time, a Design-Set reminds you of which dimensions and parameters are important to your design. Also, you can give your model to a different engineer, and tell him to ONLY edit the dimensions and parameters in the Design-Set.

C.When dimensions are in a Design-Set, you cannot only edit them with the Design-Set.


IMPORTANT

After you add a dimension to a Design-Set, you CAN ONLY use the Design-Set to edit that dimension.

To edit a dimension in the Part-Editor again, you must delete the dimension from the Design-Set.

A dimension that is in the Design-Set is gray in the Part-Editor - to indicate you cannot edit it.


Top-Tips:

1.Rename each dimension to a name that will help you know its function in the Design-Set.

2.Rename each Design-Set to remind of its design-objective.

See Show Dimension-Names , and Show Function-Block Names


How to open the Design-Set FB dialog

MD-Icon-FB-DesignSet

Edit the Design-Set FB

1.Double-click the Design-Set FB in the graphics-area

OR

1.See How to Open a dialog

The Design-Set dialog is now open.


Design-Set dialog

tog_minusDesign-Set toolbar
btn_delkeywordAdd or Delete Element-Rows
btn_delkeywordLink a Dimension to an Element-Row
tog_minusMaximum and Minimum 'Hard-Limits'
tog_minusReplace a Dimension or Parameter

Parameter Lists in different Element-Types:

In addition to dimensions, you can link parameters from dialogs for different element types with a Design-Set.

For example: Parameters of FBs, Parameters of a Gear-Pair, Parameters of a CAD-Line, and other elements.

btn_delkeyword        Link a Parameter (from a dialog-box) with an Element-Row


Available Element-Types and their Parameters

btn_delkeywordLinear-Motion Function-Block
btn_delkeywordMotion-Dimension Function-Block
btn_delkeywordGearing Function-Block
btn_delkeywordGear-Pair
btn_delkeywordRack-Pinion / Ball-Screw
btn_addkeywordCAD-Line
MD-Dialog-Design-Set-Parameters-CADLine
btn_addkeywordPulley

When you click a Pulley, you add

Path Joint as the Element Name

Tooth-Count as the parameter.

Tooth-countnumber of Pulley teeth parameter in the Pulley dialog.