Making drawings in Creo of an assembly modeled in Catia?
Hello!
Is it strongly adviced to NOT make a drawing in Creo 9 of an assembly made in Catia v5?
I'm making an component for a client. The component consists of two sheet metal plates that are cut and welded together and then applied a gasket. An assembly in Catia contains solids and surfaces that represent the plates and welding paths.
I modeled the components in Catia v5 r28 and the customer uses Creo 9.
Then I made a preliminary test of the question above by
1. Export a stepfile of the assembly,
2. Open step with creo and save the assembly and parts as creo asm and parts.
3. Open creo assembly and designate a top view and front view in the assembly. Create simplified representations of the assembly (cutting process of each plate, welding process, gasketing process)
4. Create a drawing and made a sheet for welding and a sheet for cutting of one plate with their respective simp representations.
5. Dimension the views. I put an outer dimension.
6. Export a stepfile from Catia of a new version of the plate, Open it in creo, save as creo part
7. Replace part in the creo assembly (as unrelated component) that the creo drawing is linked to.
8. Drawing is updated, As expected the dimension is purple and need to be remade.
I want to be able to update the drawing, i.e. replace parts in the assembly with new versions. I expect that linked dimensions in the creo drawing will be lost and need to be re-dimensioned.
The advantage of having it in creo would be that the client can open and edit the drawing directly. But I assume there is some loss in reliability and functionality when working across softwares like this.
Advantage with Catia is that we can make multible drawings by copying a catia drawing and re-link (often times) with an updated catia part. But some re-linking of dimensions will be needed.

