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Activate/Deactivate Sheet in Drawing

Activate/Deactivate Sheet in Drawing

Activate/Deactivate Sheet in Drawing

(OP)
Hi,

Does anyone now how to activate and deactivate a sheet in a drawing with a knowledgeware Rule?

Any other way of doing this?

(I've got a assembly that could be configured in 3 different ways and I've created a sheet for each one of them.
The configuration is managed with parameters. Then I configure the assembly in configure 1, I dont want sheet 2 and 3 to be updated by misstake by any user, therefor I would like to deactivate them)

Thanks
/Akesson

RE: Activate/Deactivate Sheet in Drawing

Hi,

if you can't deactivate sheet, you sure can lock views. This will prevent update.

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Eric N.

RE: Activate/Deactivate Sheet in Drawing

Hi There.

Maybe you could use scenes to separate the different assembly configurations, and then make drawingviews from the scenes?
I haven't used scenes much myself,but I think this should work for your requirements.

-Bjorn D

RE: Activate/Deactivate Sheet in Drawing

(OP)
Thanks for the ideas.

Is it possible to lock and unlock a view with a knowledgware advisor Rule?

(I need to make this process automatic since we have a program for updating and printing a complete project structure without opening the drawings in catia.)

/Akesson

RE: Activate/Deactivate Sheet in Drawing

you could always just isolate each view, its cheap and easy...the only problem is, at that point the isolated view is just a drawing view, it wont update for model changes...



-nad3000

RE: Activate/Deactivate Sheet in Drawing

I'm not sure about the inputs for knowlegeware rules, but I believe you can use a bit of VBScript within a rule - or possibly link to a macro.

We've done a few macros on drafting objects and the property LockStatus [True = locked] on the DrawingView object may give you what you want

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