Tube Centerline (Regular 3D PolyLine) Style Generation in Drawing Views
Tube Centerline (Regular 3D PolyLine) Style Generation in Drawing Views
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Hello everyone,
We create bent tubes and hoses in our products using regular 3D polylines and splines (not the CATIA Tubing module) and sweeping a circle along the path. When we create our drawings, we want the solid to show the normal solid line and line weight we have defined in our standards, but I cannot figure out for the life of me how to get the 3D polyline to show as a centerline style automatically.
We have tried going to Properties of the 3D Polyline in model space and under Graphic tab > Lines and Curves, specifying a color and linetype. This works fine in 3D model space.
In the Drawing view, we go to View Properties > View tab > Dress-up area and turn on the "3D Wireframe" option as "Is always visible", but the polyline shows up and is a solid heavy lineweight (2) like the edges of the solid model. We want it to be a lighter lineweight (1) and centerline style.
We find that we can Ctrl+click all of the segments and manually change them, but that's a real pain on large parts, and they revert back to solid heavy lines any time you do a drawing update!
How do I make lines coming from the 3D Geometrical set always show with a particular style?
Thanks in advance.
We create bent tubes and hoses in our products using regular 3D polylines and splines (not the CATIA Tubing module) and sweeping a circle along the path. When we create our drawings, we want the solid to show the normal solid line and line weight we have defined in our standards, but I cannot figure out for the life of me how to get the 3D polyline to show as a centerline style automatically.
We have tried going to Properties of the 3D Polyline in model space and under Graphic tab > Lines and Curves, specifying a color and linetype. This works fine in 3D model space.
In the Drawing view, we go to View Properties > View tab > Dress-up area and turn on the "3D Wireframe" option as "Is always visible", but the polyline shows up and is a solid heavy lineweight (2) like the edges of the solid model. We want it to be a lighter lineweight (1) and centerline style.
We find that we can Ctrl+click all of the segments and manually change them, but that's a real pain on large parts, and they revert back to solid heavy lines any time you do a drawing update!
How do I make lines coming from the 3D Geometrical set always show with a particular style?
Thanks in advance.





RE: Tube Centerline (Regular 3D PolyLine) Style Generation in Drawing Views
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RE: Tube Centerline (Regular 3D PolyLine) Style Generation in Drawing Views
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RE: Tube Centerline (Regular 3D PolyLine) Style Generation in Drawing Views
RE: Tube Centerline (Regular 3D PolyLine) Style Generation in Drawing Views
Regards,
Jenia Ladkov