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Copy drawing and the dimension ID's change to new ID's

Copy drawing and the dimension ID's change to new ID's

Status: Archived Submitted by 1-Newbie on ‎May 17, 2016 02:26 PM
3 Comments (3 New)

We quite often have to duplicate drawings and keep the dimensions as applied on that sheet.  We will save as the drawing, so that the dimensions are there.  But the dimension ID's are exactly the same as the original.  Because of this the original drawing dimensions will become detached (Pink dims.).  If you reattach the dimension on the one drawing the other drawing dimension will become detached.  If the save as would repopulate the dimension ID's this would not happen.  Besides this happening on component drawings it also happens on Assembly drawings when we need to copy them.

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MartinHanak
24-Ruby II
24-Ruby II
‎May 18, 2016 02:08 AM
‎May 18, 2016 02:08 AM

Hi,

it is not clear if your drawing contain shown model dimensions or created drawing dimensions. In case of created drawing dimensions, you have to know that "by default" they are saved in model file (not in drawing file). You have to set config.pro option CREATE_DRAWING_DIMS_ONLY YES to force Creo to save created drawing dimensions in drawing file.

Also it would be better to open discussion, if you want to share your data for testing purposes.

MH

mender
6-Contributor
6-Contributor
‎May 18, 2016 09:17 AM
‎May 18, 2016 09:17 AM

By 'detached/pink' I would say these are created dims, and by the ability of one drawing to affect another, I would say they were made in the solid from drawing mode (create_drawing_dims_only no).  This technique has value, in particular for the ability to include these dimensions in ordinate dimension chains with shown feature dimensions.  However, copying the drawing leads to two drawings talking to the same dimension, and if they end up using it in decidedly different ways (perhaps they change the rep of the assembly view, leading to different geometry being shown in the two drawings?), or delete it from one drawing, it can cause trouble.

The workflow suggested by MartinHanak is a good one to design your drawings to support this method of copying the drawing and making substantive changes to the driven dimensions in the copies.

olivierlp
Community Manager
Community Manager
‎Jan 04, 2022 10:43 AM
‎Jan 04, 2022 10:43 AM
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