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Automatic Drawing question #2

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Scrambled
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Automatic Drawing question #2

Hi all-

 

I am trying to understand how the automatic drawings work.  Here is my question--

 

I have a drawing of a wood stove I am building for my shop.   When I did the drawing, I drew the square side plates out, then used the extrude command to get the 3/8 plate thickness.

 

So I have the entire stove drawn this way.   Now when I try to use automatic drawings to make the shop drawings, I can not figure out how to add a position to these 3d object I created.

 

Is there a way around this, or should I just re draw the model, and use the actual Plate command?

 

 

thanks

 

 

Steve

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Delusory
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from my very little knowledge of the ASD, I understand, that you neet to assign positions to the part, otherwise it won't generate the "documents" (or simply drawings) for parts. To assign possitions you have to have profiles in the Object Inspector. Not sure if you can have just 3D object or they have to be some sort of profiles (taken from the database, not draw by hand).

 

Another thing you can try to do, is to select everything and then simply Group them and try to make drawing of the group.

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Scrambled
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Delusory-

 

It is just a 3d object that I created.  I thought it would be easy to create the automatic documents, but it is not.   I am going to convert everything to ASD plate just for the practice and see how that goes.

 

Steve

 

 

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muleman1
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use this link, I think you will find it very helpful....http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/asd_steel_manual_eng_2011.pdf

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