Referencing Skeletons in Drawing

[mattkos]

I am making an assembly drawing. The assembly has a skeleton associated with it that has a bunch of planes I need to have shown on the drawing. These "planes" as I am describing them are not defined as datums - I do not want them showing up as datums in the drawing (with the box around and/or suction cup).

Is there any way to get these planes to show up (in any way at all) in the drawing?

 

[rudresh.hm]

not getting what u really want! if you are looking to remove datum tags from drawing view you can creat a new layer and add all datum tags in to that layer manually or creat rule to "look for : datum plane tag" and in criteria " comparision equal to, all" Hide this layer in the drawing.

 

[Heathbn]

Mattkos,

Here is the best way to work with top down design assemblies while making drawings.

Every drawing you make has its own Assembly just for that drawing. That's right you its own assembly.

When you go to make a drawing you first create an empty assembly.
Then you assembly the part, sub assembly, or top level, whatever you are making the drawing of into the new empty assembly that will only be used for this drawing.

Once this is done. Anything you add to the assembly will not effect anything up stream or down steam of the design.
You can add datums, section, simplified reps, display setups, exploded views, views, ECT...

It can also be named the same as the drawing which eases configuration management issues.

 

[jeff4136]

> These "planes" as I am describing them are not defined as datums


How are they defined? Plane surfaces, sketches, ...?


It's not really very clear what your intention is, but if I'm
imagining anything close I would create axes and show by view.

 

[Heathbn]

If you want to show a Gtol Plan. You create a Pro-E datum plan and set it as a Gtol.

After you have set it as a Gtol then you can show it in a drawing.


Edited by: Heathbn

 

[jeff4136]

> GTOL


Ah! That's the 'suction cup'?