2004 weldment drawings

Has anybody tried to create drawings of weldments in 2004?

My question is this:

How do you create a drawing of a cutlist item when it is cylindrical in
shape?

SWX2004 requires that you pick two faces to define the orientation of the
drawing view, i.e., front, right, top, etc. It also requires that the two
faces that are chosen are perpendicular to each other. This leads to the
problem of defining the orientation of a cylindrical shape.

I know that I can create a view of the entire weldment and hide all of the
other bodies in the weldment, but it would be nice if there were another
way.


Any pointers are appreciated,
Leo

 

Have you went through the whats new yet? I think that expalins a lot about
the Weldments and cut lists. The only problem with Cut lists that I'm aware
of is you can only have one cut list per sheet, not per assembly.

Regards,
Scott

 

Scott,

The "whats new" says the same thing as the help. The problem with defining
the orientation for a cylinder is that there are not 2 flat faces that are
perpendicular to each other.

So far I have just inserted a view of the weldment in a config with all
bodies hidden except the cylindrical part. The drawback to this is the time
to do it and that I also have to manually set the item number to reference
back to the cutlist.

Leo

 

Can you use planes?

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Todd Bennett
Celerity Group, Inc
tbennett<nospam>@celerity.net

 

Todd,

Thanks for the input. I tried that but it won't let me choose a plane to
orient from.

The problem is that if you choose faces from more than one body, it inserts
a view of the entire weldment. To insert a view of one part only, you must
choose faces from the same body.

Leo

 

How about making a planar surface (or even an extrusion) that will create a
face on the plane.
Align your view to it, then hide the feature/surface.
If I wasn't so lazy, I'd try it myself
Bill

 

Bill,

That worked. I was able to make a small extrusion and use it to orient my
part. In the drawing I hid the lines of the extrusion.

Thank you,
Leo