Detached drawings what are the benefits?

My few attempts at using detached drawings have been disappointing. I
seemed to have to constantly load the model or change the drawing back
to a standard SolidWorks drawing.

I would be interested to hear If others are using this functionality and
are getting a significant benefit from it.

John Layne
Solid Engineering Ltd

 

We use them for archiving after all the work is done in a normal drawing.

 

Detached drawings allow the creation of very large assembly dwgs that do not
crash your machine orr cause unreasonable hang times. If you use a series of
subassemblies, you only have to activate that subassy to update part
features in the dwg. You can text edit, add detail views, move views from
sheet to sheet and perform other functions without loading the model. Going
from sheet to sheet takes seconds instead of minutes.

If you are not concerned with large assemblies, there is no advantage I can
think of for using detached model mode.

Regards,

Dennis

 

Thanks for the reply, I wasn't aware you could activate particular
subassembly within Detached drawings.

On the next project I will attempt to use them with large assembly files.


Regards

John Layne