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Revision Drawings and Tangent Edges

Revision Drawings and Tangent Edges

Revision Drawings and Tangent Edges

(OP)
Our department is having real problems with Solidworks 2005 in terms of creating and editing drawings. The main problem being when we wish to revise a drawing. e.g. we have already created a part and its drawing, then when we modify the part it modifies the drawing. However, we wish to keep our original drawing as Issue A and save the modified drawing as Issue B. How do we achieve this? If we modify the part both drawings will change, is there any way round this? Or do we need to save the part as an alternative part and create a new drawing?

Another major problem we have is that we draw our drawings with tangent edges and hidden lines removed. However, we still require to hide some tangent edges that show up. This has not really been a problem until recently when I modified a part which inturn modified the drawing. All the tangent edges re-appeared even though the drawings settings still had them removed and now it will not let me hide them. This is really frustrating.

Can anyone help me with these problems?
It would be much appreciated.

RE: Revision Drawings and Tangent Edges

Make a PDF or eDrawing of the original drawing.

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Revision Drawings and Tangent Edges

I take it you are not using a PDM for tracking revisions.  One way around your problem would be to create configurations of your part and suppress the added features or make the dims configuration specific.

Flores
SW06 SP4.0

RE: Revision Drawings and Tangent Edges

(OP)
Yes, we do keep a PDM for our drawings in the form of excel sheets, saved files, hard copies of drawings with drawing number cards and spreadsheets. Also at the bottom of every drawing we included a Document Change Note (DCN). However, within our company we also keep all our old issue drawings saved incase we must review our designs or go back to previous drawings. Solidworks does not seem to let us do this unlike AUTOCAD used to by simply saving as a new file name.

RE: Revision Drawings and Tangent Edges

As a one-man-band, when I want to save a revision I am replacing I create a pdf of the drawing I am changing before I make changes. That is usually all I do. Then I make the revison and carry on. If I need to preserve the old version, I open the drawing and the model and save as {filename}RevA for both the model and the drawing. Then I make my changes. The current version is always the unmodified model and drawing name.
"You can't go home again, T.Wolfe"

--
Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2005 SP 4.0 (reluctant to change)
Matrox Millenium G550
AMD Athalon 1.8 GHz 512 Meg RAM

RE: Revision Drawings and Tangent Edges

AutoCAD is 2D, different world. I suggest you use PDMWorks, it will do what you want. If you don't use it, you will have to use CBL's suggestion. OR, have separate parts for each dwg. Have the part and dwg open at same time, modify either, in part "save as" new name ... in dwg "save as" new name. i.e. 12345 Rev A becomes 12345 Rev B. Do this each time it is changed. Over time, this becomes a headache tracking files and you fill up the drive quickly, especially if there are a lot of users.
PDMWorks will save you time and headaches.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: Revision Drawings and Tangent Edges

You could also make Detatched Drawing copy. See SW Help file.

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Revision Drawings and Tangent Edges

You might want to perform a search in this forum for "without PDM".  Some more interesting discussions have been had on this topic:

thread559-105346
thread559-98716
thread559-97795

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