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Robert21-Visitor
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September 8, 2014
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Drawing variants

  • September 8, 2014
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Hi,

i have inherited a template for a product that we manufacture. it's basically a template .txt file with user customizable values and a sample asm, prt and drw files that regen based on the values from that file.

the problem is with drawings, they are always either not correctly magnified (too large) or runaway far away from the drawing border. the drawing format is always A3.

i am trying to minimize the time required for editing this template.

can anything be done about this two problems? the first one could be solved with autozoom option, but this produces too small view (we are trying to maximize view area).

the runaway view could probably be repaired by lock view position?

perhaps any other advices? i am on wf3 and probably won't update any soon

i will try to upload an img of the drawing tomorrow.

best regards, Robert

also, if there are any admins here, please edit my first name to robert rob.


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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
September 8, 2014

I am not sure I understand how you are using the template. Each element will probably need to be address separately. You have formats; you have part drawings, and you have assembly drawings. You also have relations and parameters. It also sounds like you have pre-defined views in your drawing template files (not the format files). And you are saying that all your drawings are done on A3 size formats.

Know that a "template" in WF is an actual thing and where you refer to template, you are saying a "boilerplate" from previous efforts.

If only the views are a problem, delete them from your template drawing file. It sounds like you have too much variation in your product mass to make this useful.

Also, are you creating new models based on the part's 0, 0, 0 origin or some random assembly level origin?

Robert21-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
September 22, 2014

yes, we have predefined views.

i think they were positioned at some "random" position in the drawing (that looks ok/ conserves space).

there is not much variation, the models are all big axial bearings, it can be addressed with zoom without concerns. the views are also broken so that they don't take much space on a drawing.

here is a picture

http://i.imgur.com/TYqqEYs.jpg

i would currently like to fix that position of the views if possible and try to get it to auto resize, as the drawings are exploded upon regeneration. i will also show such a drawing once i have a new one.

any tips?

is any of this available via relations/ parameters (zoom, view position?

TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
September 22, 2014

That's a tough one. The only tip I can recommend is using datum points in your model to grab view origins to make sure the views are approximately centered where you want. That way to OD can change significantly, but the view origin can always be the ball bearing and the centerpoint of the part for instance.

There are means to automate such efforts but this is way beyond me. It is part of the programming setup that 3rd party services offer when a design is common throughout the product type with small variations or array systems where they are scalable. These require very little input and generate the entire product drawing package required per the client's configuration methodology. This is likely a fairly involved up front effort and some significant resources. If you are drawing that many bearings, you could be eliminated

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