Drawing help! 1

[RAMviking]

I arrange the drawings (assy) in this way:

1. General arrangement
2. Main assembly (with part list)
3. Steel drawing (this is the drawing without bolts, washer, etc.)
4. Detail drawings (typical; sheet metal parts and parts)


How do I create sheet 3 (steel drawing) and sheet 4 (detail drawing) in the easiest way?

 

[KENAT]

For 3 perhaps create a configuration (tools, configuration, Display configurations, enter configuration name, save) in the model which has the nuts, bolts, washers etc hidden. You may also want to create named views (named view button) of the projections you want on the drawing so as to simplify drawing creation.

You could do the same for the individual parts. I seem to recall it being a bad idea to look at multiple models from a drawing so this approach may be better than looking at the individual part models. Others may be able to confirm/deny this.

Interesting way of doing drawings, I know the standards we work to discourage detail assembly drawings which this sounds like. Given the SE is partially configured to follow standards you may have to use 'work arounds' for some aspects but the above should work.

 

[RAMviking]

The view works fine, but total mass is wrong. The mass is exactly the same as in the main assy. I have hidden several parts, but they are nevertheless shown in the part list.
Maybe I shouldn’t use “hide part”?

 

[beachcomber]

Hi RAMviking,
Are you creating separate draft files for these drawings or are they sheets within the same draft?
If they are sheets within the same draft you can use view configs, as Kenat says, for 1,2 & 3. For the detail parts I would just use the individual part models as your drawing will get really heavy if every detail is created from the assemby model with all the other parts hidden.
The only problem with this is that you can't make a balloon call-out on the part detail automatically take it's number fom the arrangement parts list (unless someone knows different). This may or may not be a problem for you. It can be a pain having to do it manually if there are a lot of parts.

bc

ps. what a user name - You're not a Derby County Football Club supporter are you ? Their nickname is The Rams.

 

[KENAT]

Hiding in the assembly and excluding from the parts list are different functions. To hide parts from parts list you need to look at occurance properties in the assembly. There are 2 slightly different options to do this, I suspect what you want is "include in assembly reports".

I'm a bit confused though, do you have more than one parts list? I'm not sure how you'd do this with different lists when they're both fed from the same assembly.

As for mass I'm not sure, what exactly are you trying to give the mass of? I can't remember if exclude from assembly reports also excludes from mass reports. Have you dug aroung in Help?

It's starting to sound like it's gonna be tricky to do everything you want. If you explain better there are people here who know more than me and may be able to help.

 

[RAMviking]

Thx, now it works nice. Regarding to my user name: Viking = Norway, Ram = part of my name