Re: BOOLEAN RELATIONSHIPS: HARD QUESTION

I thank you very much for your help, but from all the answers I got back I think I gave the impression of not having understood the problem I am dealing with. For sure it is this way, in some part, otherwise I wouldn't be here in the newsgroup.
What I want to clarify is that the choice that the designer makes when choose a part rather than another one is a condensed core of experience, evaluations of a great variety of aspects, and finally a lot of variables that make a component different from each other. Trying to replicate in a program this reasoning, made of comparisons between dimensions, loads, etc, is, believe me, IMPOSSIBLE. Not even the greatest software houses dedicated to mechanical design are able to do that at the moment. They are trying and step by step I am sure this will be possible one day.
At the moment I don't want a program that replicates designers reasoning directions, but just a program that stores a thought like this: "i have verified that the part n°5 of the A family can be mounted with any part of the family B except n°6".
I don't care why, but from now on when he uses the part n°5 he will know he can use it that way without rechecking it. That is why I would like a flexible way of letting him saving thoughts like the previous one in terms of relationships between single parts or family of parts, and with a combination of them, in total freedom. OK, now you tell me it is impossible. Gosh. Yours faithfully,

            jacopo Received on Wed Jun 16 2004 - 22:13:36 CEST