Good morning,
I'm making a drawing of some pins that I've made for a test assembly that I've designed using top down techniques. the image capture 1 shows a pin component that is using two ECG features to reference the tip geometry of the pin and the rear surface of another component that dictates the overall length of the pin.
You'll notice that the copied geometry is substantially larger than pin component, but I figured since I was hiding my ECG features once I was done using them as references that this size discrepancy was okay.
Now that I'm making drawings, I'm noticing that the view size of the pin is controlled by the overall geometric envelope, which means that creo is taking the ECG features into consideration. I know that I could compensate for this by setting the view to have a partial visible area, but this means I'd have to trim each view for a large number of components. You can see the oversized view on the drawing labeled capture 2.
is there a way that I can tell creo to ignore the size of these ECG features, or perhaps a better reference that I could make? would using a datum plane instead of a surface still cause the drawing view to be oversized if the datum plane was large compared to the actual part geometry, or do datums not count towards the overall geometric envelope?
on a related note. Creating new parts using top down design with the default location sometimes means that I have planes that are located away from the actual geometry I'm creating. I can edit the plane features and resize/reposition them, but I cannot automatically fit the planes to the geometry if it misaligned or outsized. Are there any methods for forcing datum planes to refit themselves?
Thank you,
