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Sample Part Family Size Editing

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This sample exercise walks you through how to edit the part sizes that are available in a part family.

In this example, you will edit the Pipe Inner Diameter (PID) and Wall Thickness (Wth) values in the Concrete Pipe part family.

To edit part sizes in the Concrete Pipe part family

  1. Enter PartBuilder at the command line and press Enter.
  2. Click the Part Catalog drop-down list and select Pipe.
  3. In the catalog tree, expand the Circular Pipes node, then select the Concrete Pipe part family.
  4. Double-click the Concrete Pipe part family or click the Modify Part Sizes button .
  5. Click the Save Part Family As button .
  6. In the Save Part Family As dialog box, enter a new Part Name and Part Description for this new part family and then click OK. This creates your own version of the selected Part Family you can edit.
  7. In the Part Family browser, right-click the Size Parameters node, and click Edit Values.
  8. In the Edit Part Sizes dialog box, click the Autosize Column Text button then find the Pipe Inner Diameter (PID) value and the Wall Thickness (WTh) values.
  9. Select any row in the table and click the New button on the Edit Part Sizes dialog box. The selected row is copied to the table.
  10. In the new table row, edit the PID and WTh values by double-clicking on them and typing in the new values.
  11. After you have completed editing sizes, click OK on the Edit Part Sizes dialog box.
  12. In the Part Family browser window toolbar, click the Save Part Family button .
  13. When finished editing part sizes, close the Part Builder by clicking the close button in the upper right corner of the Part Family browser window.
  14. You will be prompted to save the part family. Click Yes at this prompt.
  15. Next, you may be prompted to save the part family drawing file. Click No at this prompt.

    The new part family will not be available when creating or editing a pipe network until you edit the parts list and add this new part family to your parts list. For more information, see Adding a Part Family to a Parts List

Once you have added the new part family to your parts list, the new part family and the new part sizes you created will be available through the Network Layout Tools toolbar.


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