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nsgoldberg10-Marble
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January 28, 2020
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Using sketcher for labeling and the drawing result

  • January 28, 2020
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I have a large assembly, created by another group 20 years ago. A lot of the electrical connectors are labeled by using a sketch on the part surface. The issue is, when opening the top-level assembly drawing, every sketch shows on every view (through all of the parts). Since the assembly is so large, it's not easy to hide all of the individual parts that contain the sketches.

 

I can't find a config option to hide sketches. I want the sketches to show in a view where they are visible, but not show through other solid parts. Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance.

Best answer by StephenW

I think the problem is your "old data". In older versions of Pro/E, you could make cosmetic sketches. Those sketches would show thru solid geometry in the drawings and were always a pain to deal with. At some point, the cosmetic sketch was replaced by the current sketch functionality that obey's the display view command.

I don't have any old files to test on but you may be able to use erase cosmetics on views you don't want to see the labels.

If I remember correctly, we put the cosmetic sketches on a layer to be able to control their visibility. You may also want to check to see if they are already on a layer since this used to be a common problem.

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
January 29, 2020

Hi,

display view in No Hidden mode. Please attach picture, if it does not help.

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nsgoldberg10-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
January 29, 2020

Thank you for the response. By default I have all of my views set to No Hidden. That's not the issue - there aren't any hidden lines displayed. The issue is that any sketch shows through all items on every view.

 

I typically use a sketched extrusion to display text on a part to avoid this problem, but this large assembly was created 20 years ago.

 

A bit of Googling, and it seems a common issue with folks using datum curves. The solution I've read is to place all sketches on a layer, and then hide that layer. However, since there are many labels, this would be time consuming, and I also want the sketches to appear in the views where the text is facing the orientation and visible.

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
January 30, 2020
@nsgoldberg wrote:

Thank you for the response. By default I have all of my views set to No Hidden. That's not the issue - there aren't any hidden lines displayed. The issue is that any sketch shows through all items on every view.

 

I typically use a sketched extrusion to display text on a part to avoid this problem, but this large assembly was created 20 years ago.

 

A bit of Googling, and it seems a common issue with folks using datum curves. The solution I've read is to place all sketches on a layer, and then hide that layer. However, since there are many labels, this would be time consuming, and I also want the sketches to appear in the views where the text is facing the orientation and visible.

Hi,

I tested your problem in Creo 2.0. Sketched curves were not visible through solid geometry of assembly components. I can look into your data, if you are able to upload some sample (packed in zip file).

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    zhop2611-Garnet
    11-Garnet
    January 30, 2020

    layer tree, I believe it is curves that the layer is named that the sketches go on..... you can hide within individual views within the layer tree on a drawing.

    I hope I answered your question in the respects to your question.

     

    thanks

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