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[Lawana Stuckert]

Iknow I can use the "edit in frame generator" tool and "Multi-Select" all of the steels but unfortunately all of the steels have been offset to different dimensions so the "multi-select" doesn't really work as I only want to change the material.

It sounds like you wanted to change the actual size of the structural piece.. Not the material definition.. Is that correct? Your posting said material so in Inventor, material means steel, alum, stainless and that's why @melvin.valverde.delgado provided you with that solution. For the future you may want to be more clear..

In it's current form, Frame Generator will adjust any members selected using Multi Select to the orientation of the first member selected when you chose "Edit with Frame Generator". Your concern is valid, I've been bitten by this one several times myself when I needed to adjust several dozen pieces down 1/8 inch. Some were center locared, some on the edges.... when I was done, they were all on the same edge. I had to go back and do them all over again. now, I just use extreme caution. I can still edit them in groups, as long as they have the same orientation.

Hello! When opening an assembly file that was generated using Frame Generator, all of my Frame options under the Design Tab are grayed out, and I cannot select any of them. I was editing this frame yesterday, so I'm not sure what exactly is going on.

Thanks!

You may be one level too deep into the frame assembly. Try moving one level above to edit, or post here a screenshot of your browser pane.

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I know I'm trying to edit at the correct level with the assembly, so it isn't that. I tried to edit multiple assemblies with Frame Generator and I had the same problem across the board.

Oddly enough, after looking into this, I found that we had other team members having a variety of issues with Frame Generator just this week. We all used 3Dconnexion mice, and one of the team members mentioned that his issues went away after downloading the most recent drivers for his mouse. After doing the same myself, my issue has also been resolved. Weird, but now it's working. Hopefully this can help someone else!

I have a large assembly that I am using the frame generator to put in structural I beams as stiffeners in the model, I created the first in place where it needs to go and then pattered it to the 3 other locations then I need another beam of different size and orientaion and when I created it, it did the same pattern to it. Is there a way I can get it to stop patterning what features I am adding using the frame generator? I have been just suppressing the ones I don't need for the sake of making progress but it is very annoying. Would think it is something simple but have not found it. Thanks!

When you begin a FG project, it creates a sub-assembly on which your frame is built. If you were not aware of this, my guess is that you patterned this subassembly. Now anything you add to the FG file, is going to be a part of that patterned subassembly. I'm only guessing, best bet would be to post the file here for us to look at.

When I want only one frame member, that I can pattern or copy or whatever, I do not use FG, but rather, Place from Content Center. That way you can place just one piece of steel, (I always place it "As Custom" so I can modify if needed).

I am using Inventor Professional 2020. I have just realized that I can not delete or change the type of the features between shaft sections. I designed a shaft with DIN reliefs and pressed OK to put it into the assembly. In the design tree RMB click on the Shaft:1 part -> Edit using Design Accelerator, choosing the relief feature and changing it to no feature has no effect in the modell.

How can I modify shaft reliefs posterior?

Cheers,

Lajos

I have no issue removing a DIN relief from a shaft generator component. Take a look at the Screencast (no sound) to prove it. I suggest you create a Pack and Go (without templates and styles), zip the results and attach it to your question so others can troubleshoot for you.

You have an odd one here, the relief, which normally shows up in the Shaft Generator dialog, is missing. If you open up the part, by itself, you can clearly see the DIN relief and also note that it has a lock icon beside it. This indicates that it was created by the design generator.

I think you have just stumbled upon a one off error. I think normally you will be able to Edit using the Shaft Generator these features as you can see from my first Screencast. If you go into the part, right click on it in the browser and delete it, then return to the assembly you can add it back and, at least on my system, you can then edit it as you desire.

you are right, when I open your shaft I see on it DIN relief while in Shaft Generator I see No Feature. As suggested above, open shaft IPT, delete DIN relief and save shaft IPT. Than modify shaft within your assembly by Shaft Generator as usual.

Just noticed this morning that I am no longer able (with Inventor 2020) to pattern any frame generator components that have been "reused". This functionality was very useful in Inventor 2019 for weldments that use lots of the same components. Is there some way to turn this on again?

Use case: custom stairway with vertical balusters that follow the same pattern all the way up the length of the stairway. I would draw the first "section" in my sketch and place a single baluster, then "reuse" that part throughout that first section after I made the proper end treatments. All other "sections" of the rail use the same pattern of components, and I would pattern up the length of the stair stringer, and then also to the other side of the stairway. This was a huge time saver.

Yes, but then you are not able to change the size of this frame member, using frame generator library. You have to delete the pattern - change the component - create the pattern again. Or at least that is what I came up with...

I have created a frame using frame generator. I did so by creating a sketch in a (dumb) part outlining where i want the steels to go etc. I then added the steels and some bolted connections etc. i did this back in Jan.

Not to address the problem, but notice your verticle corner legs are not perfectly verticle, the bottoms seem jaggy as if a sketch is at an angle, is this intentional? I do always ground my sketches now, found out the hard way they can be moved in an assembly if accidently constrain the wrong part. have never had your problem occurr, so don't know the answer, just seeing if the corner legs are supposed to be off from tru verticle or if you just didnt notice.

I've posted quite a bit lately with some issues I've been having. Herse another one that keeps popping up. I'm working on another set of hand rails, I notice 1 dimension needs to be changed by about a 1/4", I go into the sketch and move the line and when I come back into the assembly frame members just randomly appear on other sketches that I didn't touch.

Thank you for posting the files. I've used frame generator a fair bit and haven't seen something like this yet. It looks like the issue is related to the reuse command. I'm thinking that certain components that were just horizontal bars that got reused turn into a full rail and show up as an extended railing. I've noticed the problem appears when the assembly gets rebuilt. Have you tried doing this without the reuse feature?

Edit: I'd also try and stay away from adaptivity. I personally have had it break things too many times to count and have found other more robust workflows to get to keep everything linked. It works ok in the final stages of design/modeling, but in the early stages where everything is based off of it I have had issues. If you would like to experiment with other possible workflows I'd be happy to help

If you try it without reuse, keep an eye on parts like ANSI 2x .154:11 that is in the second reuse. It is a vertical bar that changes to almost the whole rail on a rebuild. Not sure yet why it is doing that, but have confirmed that it is happening. Without reuse, if the same behavior exists it will not be visible

I think this has something to do with the reused members. It is a combination of limitations and bugs. First of all, you did not do anything wrong here. But, I would not use Frame Gen the way you did it. You are using multiple adaptive parts to drive the frame. You might be better off just using one skeletal part (the concrete). I don't see the point of using multiple rail sketch parts.

In the video, you edit the rail sketch 4 and delete certain lines and recreate new lines. This change can lead to frame member losing references. After the lines are deleted, it is better to delete the frame members. Otherwise, you will have orphan frame members.

It looks like the impacted frame members are reused. There might be a bug here. The video does not show any error message. I suppose there should be a warning when the frame members become orphaned. I am wondering if you don't reuse the members, maybe the behaviors will be more robust. Also, the frame subassembly needs to be adaptive, since there are active adaptive members.

I redrew part of your wireframe inside Concrete.ipt and deleted all the other adaptive parts, replaced the frame gen componants and the model behaves and updates as expected. My advice is to never use adaptive features, There are legitimate uses for it and I am sure that many folks use it with success but over the years I have noticed the number one cause of haunted/broken models is adaptivity. It causes way more problems than it solves imo.

I also think the re-use issue was likely because you had multiple models being used for the skeleton. I always aim to have only one wireframe part, If I need multiple then I will derive an assembly as a surface body part and keep the link active.

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