Automating the Design Process and Table-Driven Design - Inventor 2013 and Inventor LT 2013 Essentials - page 323

FIGURE 15.6 The drawer back repositioned by
linking parameters

Building an iPart

You can think of an iPart as a part family—a part that includes a table so you can
give different members of the part family different values to the same parameter
or control whether a given feature appears in a family member.
In this exercise, you will build a second drawer front based on the one already
in the file. You'll change its size and go from using a pull for opening to a knob.

1. Make certain that the 2013 Essentials project file is active, and then
open c15-05.ipt from the Parts\Chapter​15 folder.

2. Change the Ribbon to the Manage tab, and click Create iPart in the
Author panel.
When the iPart Author dialog box opens (Figure 15.7), take a moment
to click through some of the tabs that select which features will be con-
trolled as part of the iPart. Notice that columns for the named param-
eter and a suppressed feature were automatically displayed and that -01
has been added to the current filename to define the first family mem-
ber's part number.

3. Right-click the row of features for the current part, and click Insert
Row in the context menu.
This new member is given a -02 extension and currently has the
same values as the original.

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You can specify part
numbers for each
member, or you can
click Options to open
a dialog box where
you can set the nam-
ing scheme.

4. Change the Width value for the new member to 20 in and the Height
value to 7 in.