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Phillip113-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
October 17, 2019
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Is it possible to create "dynamic" drawing formats?

  • October 17, 2019
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Question:

Is it possible to make a single drawing format that can dynamically change size, imperial or metric standard, projection angle, title block configuration, etc by making selections in a "drawing format configuration" dialog box?

 

Challange:

Our company has over 250 different managed drawing formats which cover standard sheet sizes for imperial and metric, as well as 1st and 3rd angle projection. In addition to the standard drawing sizes, we also have double-wide, triple-wide, etc. Our assemblies are typically round and long. Finally, our title block is different for Part drawings and Assembly drawings.

 

Major Pain Point:

Making updates to our drawing formats is a nightmare because all drawing formats have to be modified to reflect the new change(s).

 

 

2 replies

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
October 18, 2019

Hi,

I am almost sure that requested functionality is not available "out of the box".

You can solve your situation by developing a ProToolkit application (I am not sure whether ProToolkit is really necessary).

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    Phillip113-AquamarineAuthor
    13-Aquamarine
    October 22, 2019

    Martin,

     

    I pretty much thought it would have to be done using something like ProToolkit. 

     

    Just wondering what others have used to address this.

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    Phillip113-AquamarineAuthor
    13-Aquamarine
    January 17, 2020

    I think this is what we are going to do if we decide to move forward. We took a step back to see how MBD is going to affect our needs. 

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    FV_0117-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    October 21, 2019

    Have you  tried to categorize possible choices by options controlled by:

    • detail configuration file
    • drawing template
    • drawing table or symbol selection 
    • format

     

     

     

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