How do you make a drawing of an assembly?
How do you make a drawing of an assembly?
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I have some sheet metal parts that need to be spot welded together, so I need to make a dimensioned assembly drawing of them to show their correct orientation. What's the best way to go about this. I tried creating a sub assembly of the parts that I needed to include in the drawing, but that created a lot of broken mates in the main assembly that took me forever to sort out. There must be an easier way.
Tom
Tom






RE: How do you make a drawing of an assembly?
RE: How do you make a drawing of an assembly?
The other thing you could do is highlight the components in hte Feature manager tree and RMB the last one and select "Form new Sub-assembly here". If some mates get broke either suppress them and repair them. Then unsuppres them. Or Just repair each of them.
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RE: How do you make a drawing of an assembly?
You can place individual components on different drawing layers. Right-click the component from within the drawing and select "Component Line Font...". You could place the components you wish to hide on a layer and then turn that layer off.
Another possibility is to make a special configuration in your main assembly that shows just the parts you are interested in. That way, you can also give that configuration special configuration-specific properties for use in the drawing title block, etc.
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RE: How do you make a drawing of an assembly?
I agree with SBaugh and amoroso.
When I design a part out of sheet metal or a soft material like plastic or aluminium, I systematically create an assembly model. I attach the assembly model to my fabrication drawing, and to the final assembly.
My primary concern is that I want to be able to attach thread inserts and other fasteners that I want managed by the fabricator. With sheet metal, I can suddenly decide to weld or rivet a gusset. It does not mess up my drawing.
JHG