Show extrusion boundary lines?
Show extrusion boundary lines?
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Forgive me as I am quite new to Pro/e, but I have a rather basic question that I was hoping somebody could answer for me.
I am producing drawings for simple fixtures, and some of these are so simple that I am just producing an assembly as one part, with extrusions etc. most parts are just being welded. Now I know the engineers would probably have a heart attack when they saw that I wasn't assembling and designating every single extrusion as a part with a number yadayada. But let me get to the point.
My end goal is to produce simple drawings so others can fab these up, when I create multiple extrusions, these are "parts" to me, but in pro/e they are just extensions of a single part, and then in drawing I have to put my own lines in to show as separate parts.
Is there a simple option to show these lines that would separate the different extrusions from each other? I understand that I am doing things "wrong" but there is no purpose of me creating actual assemblies for what I am doing.
Thanks for any help!
I am producing drawings for simple fixtures, and some of these are so simple that I am just producing an assembly as one part, with extrusions etc. most parts are just being welded. Now I know the engineers would probably have a heart attack when they saw that I wasn't assembling and designating every single extrusion as a part with a number yadayada. But let me get to the point.
My end goal is to produce simple drawings so others can fab these up, when I create multiple extrusions, these are "parts" to me, but in pro/e they are just extensions of a single part, and then in drawing I have to put my own lines in to show as separate parts.
Is there a simple option to show these lines that would separate the different extrusions from each other? I understand that I am doing things "wrong" but there is no purpose of me creating actual assemblies for what I am doing.
Thanks for any help!





RE: Show extrusion boundary lines?
Why try to do things backwards from the way the system was designed to work, especially if you know that you are doing it wrong.
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The reason I am looking for these shortcuts, is because I am tasked with creating these drawings quickly, and am already being asked why I am using pro/e to begin with. Well I know it better than autocad (I know it is easy to learn), but my 2014 version is rediculously slow and buggy and I don't like it.
Anyway, this leads me to a point that peppinu made, creating parts in assembly, this is something I want to go to every time, but it seems to create a lot of problems and a lot of people recommend against it. Is there an easy button for this or do you really have to plan your intent out? Can I quickly make references that don't actually reference another part when I am done with the sketch? Rather just reference the state it is at now, but if I change it later, the whole tree doesn't turn red? I know probably another topic, but figured I would ask. Thanks.
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The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that isn't included in this version of Windows.
RE: Show extrusion boundary lines?
The main question I would ask is, are the users of the drawings concerned with having details of the individual bits? If not, then you can draw the separation lines on the solid model using datum curves. It doesn't save time over doing this at the drawing level, but it does mean that they will be there for anyone looking at the model.
Building parts in the assembly can have two side-effects. One is that the resulting parts will have references to other parts or the assembly. The other is that dimensions in the part were it stand-alone will not be there because when alignment constraints take their place. Like anything else, if it is built one way and you want to build it another way, there is some work to do.
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