how do I leave skeletons out of my drawing

Question

When I create drawings from parts that make use of a large skeleton (dimension-wise), there is a boundary around the part with the size of the skeleton.

This is very irritating when trying to create projections because the large frames overlap (so trying to select the right object becomes impossible).

Right now I solve this by creating a spline boundary (drawing view -> visible area -> partial view) all around the part to get a smaller boundary. This works but is a lot of work. Isn't there a setting to have the boundary only around solid parts or a setting to disregard skeletons or the possibility to resize the boundary with the mouse in the corner of the boundary?

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TomD.inPDX · Accepted Answer

Simplified reps seems to be the easiest way.

Highlight the skeleton in the model tree and RMB>Exclude

Open the View Manager (graphics toolbar) and the Master Rep will have a plus ( + ) by it.

Select Save and it will save it to a new simplified rep.

In the drawing, you can change the View State (view properties) to the new Simplified Rep.

This will change the bonding box of the default view size.

TomD.inPDX · Answer

You might have to manually create these borders.If this is a persistent issue, you might consider view states or family tables in the model to exclude the skeleton from drawing model.

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