But first a little disclaimer: I am from germany and I try my best to write in english. But maybe there will be a lot of mistakes. Please be easy with that
.I am working for a company wich produces Flight Cases (these plywood boxes with aluminum profiles).
I am basically alone with CAD-Design "kowlede" and just migrated to Solidworks.
And here comes my problem:
I want to create Case where all individual parts of the assembly can be configured in its dimensions (width, height, depth, hight body, height lid and wall thickness).
My preferred method of modeling is Top Down. So I first create my assembly file and then my first part, wich will be the „base body“ for my whole assembly. This body will be a multibody-part with three "boxes" ontop each other.
The lowest will represent the inner dimensions of the body part of the Case.
The section in the middle will represent the gap between the body and the lid wich will result when we attach the "locating profile"(an aluminum profile wich "connectts" the lid and the body).
And finally the top part wich represents the inner dimensions of the lid.
The background of why I create the inner dimensions should be clear: i just want to make sure that everyting I want to put into the box will fit in the end
.Now, that I have my base part, I should be able to create all individual walls along my base model.
But here is, where It is getting messy for me:
I have tried different methods so far.
- At first, I have tried to set global variables on the assembly level. Wich did not work out very convenient. I had to export the global variables and assign each part of the assembly to this exported file. But maybe I did something wrong here? I dont know.
- The next Idea was to check out Driveworks Express. Wich looks promising but very hard to understand at least for me
Here is the Idea to take the dimensions of my base model and set them as variable values inside Driveworks. But how do I deal with the wall thickness of the sheets? These cannot orient on the base model as far as I know. So far my learning resource is mostly youtube but I have not found a tutorial yet wich deals with this specific problem. Either they explain parametric design only on "Part-level" or they have existing assemblys and dont explain how the different parts are interconnected to each other.
Please, I need any help I can get to make this work. It is kind of hard to have literally no one to ask (face to face)
Many thanks in advance!
