work without family table

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Good morning to all,
Currently where I work, we are beginning to have problems with family tables. several people went through the office, each one put his own, and we have several family tables that have become parallel mastodontic archives.
we have developed new components recently, and we were wondering how to manage the type of material with relative weight on the part; regarding the axieme, manage the weight and various materials that will then create the bom without passing through the family table.
if you have any ideas or even some tutorials to recommend I would be grateful.

 

[320i S]

philosophical aspect: fts are a great tool of creo, few cads offer this possibility so extended in all reliability, the error of many technical offices (especially if composed by more than 3-4 people) is to treat fts as if they were files that are taken in hand only once; this generates huge fts, full of complicated components and very different from each other (even just as typology); The other mistake I think is that when it "explodes the bomb", it immediately bans them in the most absolute way.

"Caddistic" aspect: fts are very useful in those virtually identical details (e.g. vines), where you can manage even more than 10 columns, but they are also useful in those less "distributed" details, where they vary very few aspects, but it makes sense to have them all available together, in order to be able to choose the appropriate variant.

I said this in my opinion, excluding fts from daily use does not make sense, it makes sense rather to decide at the office level a person who goes to put hand and at what level to push (number of columns), and what type of mathematicians to manage (I had practical experience in the merit, and I assure you that you can manage so, any type of database).
to keep in mind the interchange assemblies in the advanced assembly module, which really allows to create interchangeable libraries, as if it were a ft.

 

[DANI-3D]

Hi.
fts are a very powerful and very useful tool, but taken in small doses. in the past I even abused, I managed the variants of whole machines with fts, at first all well, but soon everything became unmanageable, especially the successive changes.
I currently use it, with excellent results, only for commercials: screws, bearings, pinions, pickers, springs etc.