3d views and annotation workbench for producing PMI for fully digital delivery of annotations.
Hello,
I have been a Siemens NX user for many years now.
It would be nice to this kind of workflow in FreeCAD.
In NX there is a concept of Views and PMI.
A View is basically a camera position. You create one by orienting the main 3d view, zooming/panning/spinning flowed by executing a command from the UI called create view.
A view could contain children elements of dimensions, annotations, view specific geometry like explosion lines, center marks, and geometry translations (moves). Translations in a view should not affect the actual model but be view specific.
Double clicking on a PMI view from the list of PMI views restores that view with all of its child elements applied.
There are 3 workflows that are supported down stream from this.
- First is viewing the data in 3d where the user can spin and views the model.
- Second images exported of the view can be inserted in to build instructions, inspection procedures, ect.
- Third the PMI view can be inserted in to a drawing sheet carrying with it the orientation and annotations.
See thread
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=42547
I am specifically interested in drawing free disclosure of model data and annotations but there certainly is a use case for adding PMI views in to a drafting sheet in more traditional workflows.
The following video is a good example of this kind of workflow.