Multiple Parts on a drawing sheet.

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Multiple Parts on a drawing sheet.

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If I go to the Drawing WB and insert a new A2 Drawing, I want to insert a plan view and side elevations, so I click teh "Insert new view" button, but it asks me to select a part object.

If I select all the parts I want on my drawing, I get a list of views in the table, all with the scale at 1
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Re: Multiple Parts on a drawing sheet.

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Hi, you have to select only the part that is on the top of the tree. All other pads and pockets are not to be selectes
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Re: Multiple Parts on a drawing sheet.

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I don't understand.

Select one part? Does that work? All I see is a blank sheet.
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Re: Multiple Parts on a drawing sheet.

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Hi, here an example, the fusion represents the total design, so only that must be selected together with the page, the underlaying pockets pads and fusion must not be selected
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Re: Multiple Parts on a drawing sheet.

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I need a fusion part?

I selected all items and used the boolean union tool to combine the parts into one fusion object, but it doesn't help.
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Re: Multiple Parts on a drawing sheet.

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Hi Dave, I see in your design several red exclamation marks for the fusion, view and ortho_0_0. Delete those corrupt items. You can select more than one objects to do in a drawing, but I did not think that you have a design with over 200 objects, so I thought in my previous post that you selected all steps you did to make one object. Can you post your drawing here or in Dropbox
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Re: Multiple Parts on a drawing sheet.

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Hi Willem,

I tried to create fusion objects of small groups of elements, but almost all of them have red exclamation marks.

I'd like to upload the file, but it's a piece of equipment a friend of mine is developing: he wouldn't appreciate it being accessible to his competitors!
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Re: Multiple Parts on a drawing sheet.

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Hi Dave, the red exclamation marks mean that something is wrong, I understand you can not upload the file on the forum but perhaps you can upload the dependency graph of your design. Did you do an "Analyze geometry for errors" check.

A good tutorial about working with drawings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMOCBA7ptEo
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Re: Multiple Parts on a drawing sheet.

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Hi Willem,

I have been unable to locate the problem.

I can't seem to find any errors, but the assemble refuses to fuse:

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Exception (Sun Jan  8 08:16:07 2017): Fusion failed
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Re: Multiple Parts on a drawing sheet.

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Hi Dave,

the steps I made for placing the model on a drawing sheet:
- I made in the part workbench a simple copy of the lofts
- I created a group that contains all simple copies that belong to the tableframe ( I had to check which elements belonged to the tableframe and which not)
- I made in the part workbench a compound of all elements in the group
- I created a drawing
- I inserted the compound to the drawing
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