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Importing DXF drawing views into catpart sketches.

Importing DXF drawing views into catpart sketches.

Importing DXF drawing views into catpart sketches.

(OP)
I have a question on copying and pasting dxf views into sketches.  When I select the geometry from the imported catdrawing and copy it to the catpart how can I manipulate the geometry to align it with the origin of the view to the origin of the model itself?  The same goes for multiple views on multiple sketch planes, how do I make all of the views coincident or line up?

RE: Importing DXF drawing views into catpart sketches.

If I understand your question; after the geometry is copied into a sketch, you should add constraints to position the geometry as well as dimension the sketch.

As far as aligning views, V5 has a way to align views that you've generated or created interactively. But I would just move the views manually and line them up by eye since your working with DXF data.

RE: Importing DXF drawing views into catpart sketches.

Dear Friend

what i could suggest you is create a point at 0,0 coordinates in each view and then copy the dxf to catpart and align the 0,0 point in dxf to 0,0 of the catpart try this out it might work
amit

RE: Importing DXF drawing views into catpart sketches.

(OP)
So do I create the points at 0,0 in the drawing for each seperate view and do I put the points on existing geometry or on the catprints 0,0.  Then when I copy and paste the views into a catpart do I copy the whole sheet, or view by view?  Also when aligning the sketches how do I get the geometry to move without steching or messing up if none of it is constrained becuase of being an imported dxf?

RE: Importing DXF drawing views into catpart sketches.

Import the dxf in CATDrawing. Copy the view ; and paste inside a new sketch iside CATPart; This worked for me.

RE: Importing DXF drawing views into catpart sketches.

(OP)
Thanks, Along with everyones insight and some playing a round I also found that the operation tool bar in skeching helped alot.

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