I have a part that I need to do a FAI on that has over 700 dimensions. I was planning on splitting it up into several smaller programs. I believe I can get most of the features in 1 setup, so I was going to use external alignments. What I need help on is, a lot of the dimensions needed have modifiers on the datums. How can I get the datum features from a previous program into a current program so I can take advantage of the bonus available on the datum features?
What seems to be working (at least offline) is using "Attach Measurment Routine". I am constructing new planes from the hits in the 1st program. Constructing widths from those opposing planes. Then using the widths for my datum definitions. The Geometric Tolerance dialog box seems to be accepting these newly constructed datums from the 1st program. Next step is to try this online.
I am able to get to all 700 features in the same setup. I just want to break it down to smaller programs, but not have to rerun all the different datums the part has.
