Assembly annotations

Hi guys

Is it possible to show annotions in a main assembly (info text with leaders)
without showing annotations from the subassemblies. I try to hide the
annotations from a subassembly but it turn off the annotations also in the
main assy. Note! This is in assembly mode....not drawing.

SW2004 Sp3

 

In the design tree RMB on Annotations you will see the filter list. This
affects what is shown in the current document. If you expand the components
of the assmebly you can adjust their individual Annotation filters there.

Corey

 

Hi Corey

This is exactly what I am trying to do. If I put in an annotation in the
main assembley it will show up....but also an old annotation from a
subassembly, which I don't wish to show. If I pick the annotation from the
sub assy in the design tree and hide it.....also the annotation from the
main assy will be hidden. Seem like I can't select just one of them to be
shown or hidden even thought they are from different levels.

Krister L

 

Expand the sub-assembly
Under the sub-assembly you will see a folder called annotations
Right click on it
There are 3 options

Display Annotations
Show Feature Dimensions
Show Reference Dimensions

Try cycling these on and off.

 

Yepp.....once againg that is exactly what I'm doing....expanding sub
assy...right click annotations....uncheck "display annotations".....and it
works.....it turns off the annotation ...but also one level up....turns off
annotation in the main assy toooooo
There are no dimensions shown ...just some info text with leaders.

Krister L

 

Which version and sp are you on? ...this really doesn't work as
expected....if I turn off annotation display from the FM design tree in a
sub assy as earlier described......I also turn off annotations from all
other sub assys and the main assy....which I don't wish to do

Krister L

 

Krister do you have annotations in the main assembly. If there is nothing
to display then.....

This works as I expect it to. This option controls which annotations are
shown at all levels for the selected component. If you want to temporarily
turn off the dimensions you have View>All Annotations. When in an assembly
you can control which components reveal their annotations, while View>All
Annotations is on, by the previously described method. If this doesn't
clear it up I don't know if SW is able to do what you wish.

Corey

 

2004 SP3.0

I can't reproduce your problem though. There is an option under details for
the annotations that says use assembly settings for all components if this
is checked on your main assy it will override any sub assembly
settings............. After playing with this setting I am seeing some
funny behavior. Turn it off and reopen your assembly maybe that will fix
your problem. With this option off it seems to work better anyway.

Corey Scheich

 

Okay Corey...

I played with those settings earlier.....but it made no differense....the
assy is quite big and it takes some time to save, close and reopen ....but I
might give it a new try....
Thanks for taking your time ....I gotta leaern something new every day

Krister L

 

Now.....after a good night sleep and reeboting I finally got it
working.....as you say the setting "use assembly setting for all components"
overrides the subs....I unchecked it again in main assy and now it works. I
did this several times yesterday ....but there was no difference. But could
be it's quite a big assy with a lot of incontext and it's a bit slow to work
in.

Krister L

 

It seems to me there is a bug that once you turn that on and mess with the
component settings something goes haywire requiring a reboot or at minimum a
reload. (don't worry you aren't going crazy) A little frustrating I'm
sure.

Corey