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mramsey1-Visitor
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February 16, 2016
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Can't get dimensions from my model to the drawing

  • February 16, 2016
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New guy here after 15 years of SolidWorks so be gentle. I'm trying to get some model annotations to come in to my drawing. I did something (can't figure out what) and they show up in the drawing tree with the symbol greyed out and a black box next to the name. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get them to show up.


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TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
February 16, 2016

Pick on them, delete them, then re-show them with the "Show Model Annotations" tool.

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mramsey1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
February 17, 2016

Sorry, no dice with that working. I right click in the drawing tree and hit delete; select the view and hit show model annotations and it's not there any more.

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
February 17, 2016

Hi,

I tested your problem. In my test, grey dimension glyphs with black boxes appeared in drawing tree, when I suppressed feature containing these dimensions.

MH

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mramsey1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
February 17, 2016

There's nothing to suppress. the model is a bushing with one revolve feature. If I suppress it then I don't have a model at all.

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
February 18, 2016

Hi,

can you upload the model+drawing ?

MH

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mramsey1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
February 17, 2016

Since this is such a simple part I tried just deleting all the features in the model so maybe I was starting from scratch. I can't add the OD or the ID of the part, just the length and chamfer dimensions show up.

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TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
February 18, 2016

Just for testing, try creating a new drawing view, or maybe even an entirely new drawing...

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mramsey1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
February 18, 2016

I finally got it. After I had deleted all the features in the model I still didn't have those dimensions in the view. What I had to do was add a new general view and grab the dimensions from there and move them to the view I wanted. That is way more difficult than it needs to be. For all you old time ProE guys I don't know how you hung in as long as you have if this is what you have to go through making a drawing.

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