blamk an object for draft view

[cfee]

Is there a way to blank a component that hides another component, in the draft view?

In ACAD, I'd freeze the component layer, and then when I develop the assembly "draft" view, it would not appear and hide the component of interest.

In S.E. I can dis-associate the view from the model: "Convert to Draft View" and select lines to remove, etc, but this defeats the purpose of having model-generated geometry in a draft view. If I had to re-edit the model, I'd have to re-develop the view, re-disassociate it, and re-hard select entities for changing, all over again. with another edit to the model, this would become absurd.

Consequently I'm confident there's a process in S.E. that I just haven't found yet.

I'm in the stage of the design where the "rubber meets the road" - namely- preparing the shop drawings necessary to cut and weld the design. 3D modeling is HELPFUL, but creating the shop drawings is the money-step!

Thanks for any help!

C. Fee

 

[PatCouture]

In the properties of the draft view, you can select which part you want to show in the view, or you can simply remove some lines with the toolbar button, also you could use display configurations to put the necessary parts in the draft view.

Good luck

Patrick

 

[kjoiner]

C. Fee

Right click on the view you and go to the properties dialogue. Select the display tab. In that tab you will see a tree that lets you pick and choose what you want to show in the view. Also, as Patrick mentioned, using configurations in your assembly model will greatly improve the efficiency of the process. In the display tab, you will also see check boxes for showing or hiding hidden lines, but also a check box that lets you control whether or not objecs blocked by other objects are shown. Using these tools, you should be able to get the results you want.

After getting used to the tools, I find that I'm 10x faster creating drawings than I was with my older 3D CAD software that had very poor drawing creation tools. There is a learning curve but once you get through it, drawing creation becomes almost fun. There is a tool for showing and hiding edges (it's in the drawing tool bar), but I use that as a last resort. By the way, I dont' use the level tools in draft. I probably should but other users may have some good ideas on levels that I could learn from.

Kyle

 

[cfee]

THANKS !

I'll check into this on monday!

C. Fee