Making Drawings: Master Model or "Select Part"

[ROK99]

Over the years, at numerous companies, I have only see one way to make drawings. You create a drawing file, and bring the part, or assembly in as a component (Master Model?). Everything shows up in Modeling space in the drawing file, with a complete assembly structure in the ANT. Hop over to Application > Drafting, and drop a view of your part on sheet and go detail...

Recently, some users have not been bringing components into the drawing file at all. They create new drawing file, then add a Base View by selecting a part to show up in the view. There is not really an assembly structure under the drawing (it appears to have structure, but it is just symbolic, and has a special icon with a drawing sheet image behind the component-block).

When this method is employed, we usually end up with serious problems that often result in a re-do. It seems to "paralyze" the drawing when you need to do things with components - which no longer behave the same as in the Master Model method.

After about the 6th catastrophe, we started telling users to stop this methodology, or explain what is the upside to working this way. We are clearly doing something wrong.

Can anyone point to why it is better, or explain what goes wrong?

 

[Arkance/PhoeNX]

There are users that can better explain why it may or may not be better but you can turn it off in the customer defaults (see the image).


Anthony Galante
Senior Support Engineer


NX3 to NX9 with almost every MR (18versions) plus the NX10 Beta