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BernardWielfaer1-Visitor
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April 16, 2015
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How to identify 2d views in a drawing ?

  • April 16, 2015
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Hi,

We have an automatic publishing to dxf for all drawings when being checked in. For assemblies this results in huge dxf files being stored in the database. That is why we only like to publish a dxf file when an assembly does only contain 2D views as this only makes sence to measure on using an 3th party program. Is there a way to set a parameter in Creo when a drawing does only contain 2D views (non 3D views) ?

Regards,

Bernard


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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
April 17, 2015

Bernard,

does this mean that you want to remove the crossed out view (in my picture) ?

Martin Hanak

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BernardWielfaer1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
April 17, 2015

Hi Martin,

In this case there is a 3D view (crossed) and so the complete drawing is not to be intended to be exported to dxf.

Regards,

Bernard

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
April 17, 2015

Bernard,

in Creo Drawing mode you can define Drawing program, which erases specific views in current drawing, when some drawing parameter is set to some value.

Maybe inside your PDM system it is possible to set this drawing parameter properly before DXF export is executed.

This is an idea, only. I am not sure if it is workable.

Martin Hanak

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TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
April 17, 2015

Couple things. First, it is entirely possible to control publishing based on parameter values in the model and/or drawing. (See publish rules and publish helper.) Second, for this to work like you envision you would need a way to have this parameter set prior to check-in. I'm wondering if Model Check might be able to do this. Maybe those who know and use Model Check can chime in on whether or not it's capable of checking for views based on name or orientation.

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BernardWielfaer1-VisitorAuthor
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April 22, 2015

I contacted PTC and they tell me there is no function in ModelCheck that can tell you it is a 2D or 3D view, this is a dead end...

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dschenken1-Visitor
1-Visitor
April 22, 2015

All views are 3D views. The only thing you might look for is view names, but that's pretty tedious. If one had the tools one could look to see the transformation matrix to see whether the rotations in it matched orthographic views or not.

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