Missing hole dimensions in AFX based drawings

[uklemme]

Hi experts,

I experienced the following behaviour.

I set up an assembly with AFX standard parts (Bosch, Item or comparable), no customizations going on. Adding connectors leads to additional material cuts in the profiles where needed. When I now create automatic drawings from within AFX these holes are not dimensioned at all. When I add a rectangular cut for example, it is fully dimensioned (s. Drawing_Bosch_Profile.png).

Another funny thing about this is that when I use steel or alu beams everything gets dimensioned (s. Drawing_Alu_Beam.png).

Any ideas what I'm missing here?

Tested it with Creo11 and Creo12 so far.

[SamuelBrantner · Accepted solution]

Hi @uklemme,

You will need to use the simplified representation if you want to have more dimensions on your drawing. The algorithm that creates these dimensions only considers the main surfaces of the model. When you switch to the detailed display, there are simply too many surfaces that would require dimensions.

So, we could either flood the drawing with dimensions or not show them at all. For our approach, we chose the latter.

I hope this helps.

[uklemme]

Hi Samuel,

thanks for the clarification. We accidentally figured out the described behaviour using the sim reps this morning. The approach will be to create the drawings having the lowest level of detail activated to create the dimensions and then switch to the highest level of detail. This way we can have both: Dimensions and details.

Thanks again!