Creating/Editing Part Property Expressions


Each model file will need to contain expressions that hold the calculated property information to be used by the part property note. The following steps must be done within the master model part file.

Setting the material density

Select Tools->Material Properties... to bring up the material properties dialog. Select the solid to assign the material to and select a material from the material library. Press the OK button and the density associated with the selected material will be assigned to the selected solid.

Creating the expressions

Select Tools->Customer Name Tools->Create Part Property Expressions or press the Create Part Property Expressions toolbar icon. The following dialog will appear:

Calculation Solids

Use Reference Set

Select the reference set to determine what solids are to be included in the calculations.

Manual Selection

Make sure the Select Solids button is selected. Select the solids to include in the calculations in the graphics window.

Calculation Units

Choose the units the calculations will be in.

Verify Property Expressions

Go to Tools->Expressions to bring up the expression editor, we should notice that there are now four new expressions called: PPVolume, PPMass, PPSolidDensity, and PPSurfaceArea. You should not be able to delete or modify the expressions. Changing any of the calculation solids' parameters should also automatically update the expression values.

The note will use these expressions by way of interpart expressions to display the values.