Hey everybody,
I'ld like to create several drawings of one assembly. The difficulty I'm facing is that I'd like to turn the visibility of certain parts on or off, depending on the current TechDraw page. That's because I'd like to show details within an assembly which are hidden behind another part otherwise. I'm using the Assembly3_Workbench and TechDraw.
Unfortunately, the TechDraw pages are always showing the "current state". That's why it's impossible for me to have all relevant drawings in one document. I'm not sure how I should tackle this. Make only one TechDraw page per document and save it as "Assembly_ABC_TechDraw_1" and so on? That would be very unconvenient if I'd make a change later on. I'd have to make this change in every single document. Or is there a better way like creating single files with only one TechDraw page and linking to the assembly without having this current problem regarding the visibility of certain parts? I know that it's possible to turn the "auto update" (Toogle KeepUpdated) on or off for each TechDraw page individually. Unfortunately I'll have to update every page if I'm opening the document for the first time. I'd have to recreate all views one by one. That's impracticable in a big assembly.
Do you have any ideas on how this should be done? Please have a look at my simplified example. I'll post the original file in my next post.
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[SOLVED] Workflow - multiple TechDraw pages for assembly where different parts are visible?
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[SOLVED] Workflow - multiple TechDraw pages for assembly where different parts are visible?
Last edited by M4x on Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:06 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Max
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Re: Workflow - multiple TechDraw pages for assembly where different parts are visible?
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Re: Workflow - multiple TechDraw pages for assembly where different parts are visible?
I had just another idea: Would it be possible to create some kind of clones and just delete parts according to the corresponding TechDraw page? I'm not yet very experienced regarding clones, shapebinders and so on.
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Re: Workflow - multiple TechDraw pages for assembly where different parts are visible?
I've colored the TechDraw screenshots to make it easier to see which part is which.
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Re: Workflow - multiple TechDraw pages for assembly where different parts are visible?
Instead of selecting the complete assembly, just select the bodies that you want to be visible when you create the TechDraw_View.
Re: Workflow - multiple TechDraw pages for assembly where different parts are visible?
That's a very good idea, I'll try that as soon as I'm back at my computer.
Would it be possible to delete parts from an already existing view?
Would it be possible to delete parts from an already existing view?
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Max
Max
Re: Workflow - multiple TechDraw pages for assembly where different parts are visible?
If you mean cosmetic lines: you can use the eraser icon.
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Re: Workflow - multiple TechDraw pages for assembly where different parts are visible?
Thank you guys! The source property was exactly what I was looking for.
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Max
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